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Most undergraduate syllabi treat Discrete Math as a "service course" for Computer Science. Standard texts (like Rosen or Epp) have ballooned to 1,000+ pages, often overwhelming beginners with encyclopedic breadth. Balakrishnan takes the opposite approach. introductory discrete mathematics balakrishnan pdf