TITLE: Prerequisite reading for Concrete Mathematics?
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: I'm a freshman computer science major who has just started reading Concrete Mathematics, mathematics for computer science. Is there any prerequisite reading or learning I should do before embarking on reading this book?

REPLY [11 votes]: Heh, I almost taught a class with this text. You should know some basics first, since they don't spend too much time on them. In particular, you should have

some basic set theory (what sets are, what operations on sets mean)
some comfort in what an induction proof is and how they generally look (yes the book discusses them in general, but they spend more time applying them)
some calculus, enough to know what a Riemann sum is and what Riemann integration means
a little comfort about sequences and series
knowledge of complex numbers
a willingness to work through problems and a natural curiosity

Anything else that you run into that's unfamiliar, you can probably pick up on the fly. Good luck!