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: 9781447160540
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4471-6054-0
- Verlag: Springer
- Erscheinungstermin: 14.12.2014
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2013
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Previously published in hardcover
- Gewicht: 4686 g
- Seiten: 288
- Format (B x H): 155 x 235 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
- Nachauflage: 978-3-030-34208-1