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by cma
4208 days ago
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I'd start with Discrete Mathematics before Spivak. From what I remember, Spivak jumps in to constructing the reals out of set theory pretty quickly. A discrete math text will drill you over a lot more basic proofs involving set theory that would help in understanding his construction. |
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Frankly there's something about the presentation in "discrete math" books that I find much more confusing and difficult than Spivak, which is just talking logically about numbers and their properties.