Sometimes the thrill of mathematics doesn’t come from the question, ... Home The story of an ‘exquisite’ new discrete math textbook by EMU’s Owen Byer and Deirdre L. Smeltzer.

Computer science concepts are often named after real-world equivalents. A queue, for instance, is a data structure where the first object in is the first object out, much like the functions of a ...

"A picture like this is called a tree," reads the textbook."If you want to know why the tree is growing upside down, ask the computer scientists who introduced this convention.