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CS130 Mathematics for Computer Scientists I

CS130 15 CATS (7.5 ECTS) Term 1

Availability

Core - CS and CSBS. Option - CSE

Academic Aims

  • To provide students with sufficient mathematical knowledge to enable them to understand the foundations of their subject for both study purposes and later career development.
  • To bridge the gap in style and content between A-level and university mathematics and to introduce students to the language and methods of professional mathematics.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module the students should be able to:

  • Understand and use basic mathematical terminology.
  • Understand the role of formal definitions and proofs and be able to apply them in problem solving.
  • Understand the basics of propositional and predicate logic.
  • Understand the basics of elementary set theory.
  • Understand the basics of mathematical relations and functions.
  • Understand the basics of graph theory.
  • Understand the basics of probability.

Content

  • The axiomatic method: Basic concepts, axioms, definitions, theorems, finite and infinte sets, natural numbers, induction.
  • Logic: Statements, truth values, Boolean operators, laws of propositional logic, predicates, quantifiers, laws of predicate logic.
  • Sets: Connection between sets and predicates, operations on sets, laws of set operations.
  • Relations: Relation composition and inverse, properties of relations, equivalence relations, equivalence classes, quotient sets, partial orders.
  • Functions: Properties of functions, equinumerous sets, countable and uncountable sets.
  • Graphs: Graph isomorphism, graph connectivity, Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs.
  • Probability: Definitions, conditional probability, Bayes' theorem, expectation, variance, standard deviation.

Books

  • Ross KA and Wright CRB, Discrete Mathematics (5th ed), Prentice-Hall, 2003.
  • Rosen KH, Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (6th ed), McGraw-Hill, 2006.
  • Truss JK, Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists (2nd ed), Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Assessment

Three-hour examination (80%) and problem sheets (20%)

Teaching

30 lectures and 9 seminars