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Summary: The most witty introduction to discrete mathematics
Review: If you expect to find only dull books on the subject of discrete mathematics then try this one.
When I was a child there were always the most hilarious Czech TV series on Children's television. One was called Pan Tau. This series was about a bowler hat wearing genius Alphons Urban living under the roof top of his brother's family's house in a Prague suburb. Alphons was an ordinary human. But he had a double: a small doll named Pan Tau which could, when twisting its hat, turn into a real life Alphons lookalike. Pan Tau, of course had suprahuman abilities, and he could play a lot of tricks to the nuisance of his real life equivalent Alphons, who had always a hard time to keep the existance of his mute supranatural lookalike a secret. In particular Alphons' nice and nephew were always amazed by their uncle's "practicality"...... .
Professors Matousek's and Nesetril's book is like Pan Tau -- it always finds the right answer to otherwise intractable (mathematical) problems. Discrete mathematics can be extremely tough at times, but with Pan Tau's little genius incorporated into this book, suddenly Discrete Mathematics turns out to be extremely funny. Anyway, there is nothing but praise to spare for this most brilliant and witty book guiding the reader through the pitfalls of mathematics rendering her/him, like myself, a proficient connoisseur of discrete math.
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Summary: Excellent book (at least in Czech version)
Review: This is one of the best books introducing to mathematics I've ever seen. It is fun to read and solve excercises. Contains beutifull and surprising results in combinatorics and graph teory but still don't require any mathmatical background. I've even used it as textbook for highschool. But still not as good as to see Nesetril lessons personally.
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