Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

I just took my discrete math final last night. I know I did well, and it's in large part because I bought this book. I did all the odd problems in the back of the chapters - it took a lot of time, but because this study guide explained everything I really figured out how to solve the problems. I didn't get this book until about a third of the way through the class - my grades immediately improved. It also comes with practice exams for each chapter, with detailed answer keys, and crib sheets for studying for each chapter. I also appreciated the sections in the back detailing the most common mistakes students make in solving each chapter's problems - an eye opener. There's an extensive essay on how to do proofs which helped me out as well.If you're going to pay tuition and buy the Rosen book, buy this book too! It's so inexpensive in comparison, but the amount that I learned from it made it worth way more than the 60 bucks I paid. A big help. Highly recommended!!!

I have a horrible Discrete Math 2 professor. Luckily, I have a strong math background and picked this bad boy up. I don't even take notes in lecture because I can learn everything by doing the homework problems with the help of this guy. Yes, sometimes the explanations aren't the best (looking at you section 7.4: Generating Functions), but I can work my way to understand what's going on and ace the quizzes/exams. I should pay my solution manual tuition instead of my professor.

I would highly recommend purchasing the study guide that accompanies the 7th edition of Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and its Applications. The textbook examples cover the basic principles and then takes leaps of assumptive knowledge in the exercises. The bottom line is that the textbook is poorly written in my opinion and the only way to fully understand the exercises is to purchase the study guide as well. Don't wait until you have taken your first exam. It will help you and it is money well spent.

I'll take any little bit of help I can get with this class. The solutions manual doesn't explain every odd problem however it does give explanations to over 75% of them which is more than the book does.

Bought the solutions manual after reading several reviews, I find the solutions manual explains how to solve the problems much better than the actual textbook does. Actually I find it more helpful than my instructor most days.

The problem with this solution manual is that it contains a lot of very informal, plain-language descriptions of solutions to problems. This is good for comprehension and understanding but bad for rigor. Depending on your instructor, they may or may not accept proofs and solutions of the sort presented in this manual, which can make it a very poor guide for self study.

The answers in this manual are better explained and drawn out than they are in the back of the text. You still just get the odd answers though, no evens. The evens would be nice.

If you're taking discrete math, this is a must have student solution manual. It not only gives you the answers for the odd questions, it explains HOW to get the answer. I had a great teacher and I used this as an additional tool. It made the class much easier. I did well on the tests... and no you can't use it on the test. I learned a great deal easier with this.

Great book.

Very well explained.

It is just for odd questions