Table of Contents

Preface; Part I: DISCRETE MATHEMATICS; 1. Preliminary Notations; 2. Fundamentals of Logic; 3. Recurrences and Integer Functions; 4. Counting Techniques; 5. Algebraic Systems; 6. Partially-Ordered Sets; 7. Lattices; 8. Boolean Algebra; 9. Finite Machines; 10. Finite Fields; 11. Elementary Number Theory; 12. Discrete Probability; Part II: GRAPH THEORY; 13. Preliminary Concepts; 14. Planarity, Colouring and Partitioning; 15. Some Algebraic Aspects of Graphs; 16. Directed Graphs; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Bhavanari Satyanarayana, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Andhra Pradesh. Dr. Satyanarayana has over two decades of teaching experience in mathematics. He has authored/edited more than twenty books and has written a number of research articles. His research interests include discrete mathematics, fuzzy algebra, graph theory, linear programming and quantitative methods. Kuncham Syam Prasad, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka. Dr. Prasad has over seven years of teaching experience in mathematics. He has co-authored/co-edited eight books and has written several research articles. His research interests include discrete mathematics, algebra, linear programming, topology and graph theory.