Overview
- Only minimal background in mathematics necessary
- Careful selection of material that is really needed by students in the first two years of their university life in Computer Science and Information Sciences
- Brings out the interplay between qualitative thinking and calculation
- Teaches the material as a language for thinking in, as much as knowledge to be gained
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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"The book covers the very basic concepts of sets, relations, functions, induction and recursion, combinatorics, probability, trees, propositional logic, and elementary concepts of predicate logic. The text is easy to read, and the concepts are presented in an understandable way using many examples. The book contains exercises with solutions, gives several further exercises, and hints for further selected reading. … the book is recommended for undergraduates as a very first introduction to the basic ideas of finite mathematics and logic." (D. Seese, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2009)
About the author
David Makinson is currently Visiting Professor at London School of Economics (LSE). Previous affiliations include the Department of Computer Science at King’s College London, UNESCO in Paris, and the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He is well known for his early research in modal and deontic logics, and more recently in the logic of belief change (as one of the founders of the AGM paradigm) and nonmonotonic reasoning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing
Authors: David Makinson
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-845-6
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-845-6Published: 29 June 2009
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 302
Topics: Theory of Computation, Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation, Probability and Statistics in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
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