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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.



Construction of the reals is in an appendix at the back. He starts with ordered field axioms.

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.




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