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unculturedon A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

Epp's book is much simpler.

unculturedon A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

If anyone is interested in how mathematicians think and do proofs there are many helpful books. For example,

Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics by Chartrand and others.

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach by Velleman.

Learning to Reason: An Introduction to Logic, Sets, and Relations by Nancy Rodgers.

Elementary Discrete Math books make for great intro to proofs and math thought:

Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Epp.

Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction by Scheinerman.

There are tons of terrific introductory books on other subjects in math if anyone's interested.

unculturedon A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

CompSci is not engineering. It's almost math major, heavily on the discrete side of things.

unculturedon A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

I was actually being cautious. American colleges like to make sure you pay for as many BS courses as possible. Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Calculus 3...

Besides, I never heard of math majors taking cryptography that early. Usually, Intro to Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra and Abstract Linear Algebra come first.

unculturedon A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

I always thought that being an Engineer assumes you have knowledge of mathematics.

Not really. Mostly just algorithms and procedures of some math concepts(Calculus and Linear Algebra) which roughly corresponds to the first year of North American math major.