Discrete Mathematics: A New Approach

This book offers a new, fresh approach to the Discrete Mathematics course. Combining traditional course topics with popular culture, applications from a varity of historical examples and a focus on the historical development of the material. The author's intent is to enterain as well as teach. His very unique approach offers a quite different look at these topics. The book will cover many of the same topics found in other texts but with a notable twist in presentation. Defining discrete mathematics, the author moves quickly into combinatorics, permutations, differnce euqations, graph theory, financial mathematics, fractals and chaos, trees, etc. A unique presentation and a unique structure is meant to offer instructors and students a real alternative to current texts and to mimic the author's successful style in his current CRC book, Secret History: The Story of Cryptology.