Offering many elegant and surprising results, an engaging writing style, and more than 650 exercises, this mathematics text is designed to bridge the gap between computational lower-level courses, and more theoretical upper-level courses. The text is appropriate for discrete mathematics courses, as well as introductory proofs courses, and is accessible to students having two or three semesters of calculus, or introductory linear algebra. Topics include proofs, number theory, combinatorics, graph theory, divisibility tests, binomial coefficients, and Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR