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I'm currently slowly working my way through Concrete Mathematics by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik.

It's basically an expanded version of the first bit of Knuth's Art Of Computer Programming. I've found it really fascinating and a lot of fun so far even if it is a bit slow going for me.

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I was browsing Amazon and I came across the same book. I think I certainly will look into this one, though some of the comments (on Amazon) made it sound like the authors jumped from one topic to another, and skirted around a lot of the in-depth discussions that you would normally expect from a book like this... Has this been your experience?

How quickly have you been able to move through Concrete Mathematics? It looks like the sort of thing you might be able to do 1-2 problems a day.

It depends on how much time you devote to it...but the nice thing about that book is that each chapter's exercises are broken up into "Warmup exercises", "Homework exercises", "Exam questions", and "Research problems". It's still well worth working through it though - the authors are shockingly competent.

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