Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Sixth Edition, is intended for one- or two-term introductory discrete mathematics courses taken by students from a wide variety of majors, including computer science, mathematics, and engineering. This renowned best-selling text, which has been used at over 500 institutions around the world, gives a focused introduction to the primary themes in a discrete mathematics course and demonstrates the relevance and practicality of discrete mathematics to a wide a wide variety of real-world applications'from computer science to data networking, to psychology, to chemistry, to engineering, to linguistics, to biology, to business, and to many other important fields.

• The MathZone Companion Website
• To the Student
• The Foundations: Logic and Proofs
• Basic Structures: Sets, Functions, Sequences and Sums
• The Fundamentals: Algorithms, the Integers, and Matrices
• Induction and Recursion
• Counting
• Discrete Probability
• Advanced Counting Techniques
• Relations
• Graphs
• Trees
• Boolean Algebra
• Modeling Computation
• Appendixes
• Suggested Readings
• Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises
• Photo Credits
• Index of Biographies