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Mathematics in Computing

An Accessible Guide to Historical, Foundational and Application Contexts

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4471-4533-2
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungstermin: 16.11.2012
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781447145332
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4471-4533-2
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Erscheinungstermin: 16.11.2012
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2013
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 5856 g
  • Seiten: 288
  • Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 22 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
  • Nachauflage: 978-3-030-34208-1
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Mathematics in Civilization.- Sets, Relations and Functions.- Logic.- Software Engineering.- Formal Methods.- Z Formal Specification Language.- Number Theory.- Cryptography.- Coding Theory.- Language Theory and Semantics.- Computability and Decidability.- Probability, Statistics and Software Reliability.- Matrix Theory.- Complex Numbers and Quaternions.- Calculus.- Graph Theory.