Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
This book would not exist if not for “Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics” by Richard Grassl and Tabitha Mingus. It is the book I learned discrete math out of, and what taught with the semester before I began writing this text. I wanted to maintain the inquiry-based feel of their book but update, expand and rearrange some of the material. Some of the best exposition and exercises here were graciously donated from this source.
Thanks to the graduate students who have co-taught the Discrete Mathematics course with me over the years, including Evan Czysz, Alees Lee, and Sarah Sparks, who helped develop new activities and exercises that have been incorporated into this text. Michelle Morgan provided copy-editing support and Jennifer Zakotnik-Gutierrez helped code many of the interactive exercises in the online version of the book. Thanks also to Katie Morrison, Nate Eldredge, and Richard Grassl (again) for their suggestions after using parts of this text in their classes.
The online version of the book is written in PreTeXt and hosted on Runestone Academy thanks to the tremendous development work of Rob Beezer, Brad Miller, David Farmer, and Alex Jordan along with the rest of the participants of the pretext-support group.
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groups.google.com/g/pretext-supportFinally, a thank you to the numerous students who have pointed out typos and made suggestions over the years, and a thanks in advance to those who will do so in the future.
