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Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

by David Makinson (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $19.94
Synopsis

This book equips the student with essential intellectual tools that are needed from the very beginning of university studies in computing. These consist of abilities and skills - to pass from a concrete problem to an abstract representation, reason with the abstract structure coherently and usefully, and return with booty to the specific situation. The most basic and useful concepts needed come from the worlds of sets (with also their employment as relations and functions), structures (notably trees and graphs), and combinatorics (alias principles of counting, with their application in the world of probability). Recurring in all these are two kinds of instrument of proof -- logical (notably inference by suppositions, reductio ad absurdum, and proof by cases), and mathematical (notably induction on the positive integers and on well-founded structures). From this book the student can assimilate the basics of these worlds and set out on the paths of computing with understanding and a platform for further study as needed.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Springer
Published: 30 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 1846288444
ISBN 13: 9781846288449

Media Reviews
From the reviews: 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)
Author Bio
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.