Concrete Mathematics

Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science

The cover displays the mathematical symbol for summation, Σ, inscribed in concrete.
Author	Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
Language	English
Genre	Mathematics Computer science
Publisher	Addison–Wesley
Publication date	1994
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	657 pp (Second Edition)
ISBN	0-201-55802-5
OCLC	29357079
Dewey Decimal	510 20
LC Class	QA39.2 .G733 1994

Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, first published in 1989, is a textbook that is widely used in computer-science departments as a substantive but light-hearted treatment of the analysis of algorithms.