Author Keith Devlin has fully reworked his standard-setting "Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics" to create a third edition that reflects a new generation of student. The narrative is even livelier and less textbook-like than before. Remarks and asides link the topics presented to the real world of students' experience. Some material from the earlier editions has been discarded in favor of more exercises, and Devlin has added a new introductory chapter on the nature of mathematics - one that motivates readers and sets the stage for the challenges that tie ahead.
Students crossing the bridge from calculus to higher mathematics need and deserve all the help they can get. The third edition of "Sets, Functions, and Logic" is a little book that they not only can afford, but will actually read... and enjoy... and learn from.