Mathematics in Computing
An Accessible Guide to Historical, Foundational and Application Contexts
This clearly written and enlightening textbook provides a concise, introductory guide to the key mathematical concepts and techniques used by computer scientists. Topics and features: ideal for self-study, offering many pedagogical features such as chapter-opening key topics, chapter introductions and summaries, review questions, and a glossary; places our current state of knowledge within the context of the contributions made by early civilizations, such as the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Greeks; examines the building blocks of mathematics, including sets, relations and functions; presents an introduction to logic, formal methods and software engineering; explains the fundamentals of number theory, and its application in cryptography; describes the basics of coding theory, language theory, and graph theory; discusses the concept of computability and decideability; includes concise coverage of calculus, probability and statistics, matrices, complex numbers and quaternions.
| Autor: | O’Regan, Gerard |
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| ISBN: | 9781447145332 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 288 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer London |
| Veröffentlicht: | 16.11.2012 |
| Untertitel: | An Accessible Guide to Historical, Foundational and Application Contexts |
| Schlagworte: | Calculus Coding Theory Cryptography Discrete Mathematics Formal Methods Graph Theory Group Theory and Ring Theory History of Mathematics Matrix Theory Number Theory |
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