A number of years ago, Harriet Sheridan, then Dean of Brown University, organized a series oflectures in which individual faculty members described how it came

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Eschewing the often standard dry and static writing style of traditional textbooks, Discrete Encounters provides a refreshing approach to discrete mathematics.

This book explores the idea that mathematics educators and teachers are also problem solvers and learners, and as such they constantly experience mathematical a