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Reviews for Mathematics Study Guide - California High School Exit Exam

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The average rating for Mathematics Study Guide - California High School Exit Exam based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.has a rating of 3 stars

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-01 00:00:00
0was given a rating of 3 stars Johnny Mcauliffe
good
Review # 2 was written on 2011-02-20 00:00:00
0was given a rating of 3 stars David Balog
The book appears to be extremely readable, and judging by the speed with which I'm getting through it, ought to be eminently suitable as a text book. Moreover, the book appears to explain from scratch all of the discrete mathematics that is used, and provides a large number of worked exercises. Of course, this potentially reduces its suitability for advanced computer science undergraduates, who would hopefully already be familiar with the formal underpinnings. There are a couple of negative points, however. Most significant is the way the publisher (presumably) has decided to include extremely wide margins on the pages - in many places, less than half the available white space is actually used for print. This is a gross waste of paper, and presumably ramps up the book's price completely unnecessarily. There is also at least one technical error in the footnotes. We are told on page 4 that "it is always possible to represent any element of a discrete set with a finite string (in some alphabet)", where an "alphabet" has previously been defined to mean "any finite set of symbols". This is obviously only true for countable discrete sets; uncountable discrete sets cannot be represented in this way, because there are only countably many finite strings over a finite alphabet. Nonetheless, this book gives a good account of the field, with due emphasis on key mathematical concepts underpinning it.


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