My notes and complete solutions to "Discrete Mathematics using a Computer"

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I wanted to put a more descriptive title but couldn't in the alloted 80 chars.

Basically, I've spent the last two weeks working through "Discrete Mathematics using a Computer" which teaches Discrete Mathematics using Haskell.

The book is very beginner friendly (for both math and haskell), and I recommend it to anyone wanting to get started with Discrete Maths (you'll also learn some haskell along the way :)).

The solutions are posted as github gists so you can fork and send me patches if you find bugs in the code or corrections to the proofs. Thanks.

Isn't it likely that anyone with the book will learn more from it by working through it themselves rather than reading someone else's solutions?

Definitely. My goal is not to substitute the book at all.

The only reason I'm posting these solutions is that I can compare answers with someone else who is also working through the book. Hopefully, by reading each other's solutions (and providing corrections), we can learn even more than if we had just worked through the book by ourselves alone.

Awesome work, thanks! Hadn't heard of that book but looks good. /bookmarked for future reference.

Thank you. I look forward to seeing your patches soon :).

There's another book on a similar vein called "Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming" that I intend to tackle in the future. It's a bit more advanced than this book, but if you already know some discrete math, that might be a better place to start.

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