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Query: College is dropping discrete math as a requirement

And here's why. Discrete math is actually math proofs. Plain and simple. I recently dropped a discrete math class (for the second time) that used this book. The professor was fed up with it also! I don't pretend to fathom all there is in the book, though the section on the chinese remainder theorm is good. It has its points. But then maybe the subject matter just isn't gathered together cohesively enough to make a class of it. Check your local colleges. Do they offer discrete math? My opinion is that this stuff is better scattered over several different classes on algorithms, math proofs and digital logic.