So the GF is (against my advice) studying CS. While I have an ongoing rant on the Programmer's Symposium, I'm coming here for another battle. She doesn't "believe" inductive proofs. She has just ...

Discrete mathematics gets easier when you know how to approach proofs. Direct reasoning, induction, and contradiction each have specific steps that can be learned and practiced. Pairing these methods ...

MIT Press recently published Fundamental Proof Methods in Computer Science, a book by Konstantine Arkoudas and David Musser, a professor emeritus of computer science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic ...