Makinson Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84628-845-6
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Computer Science

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 book teaches the material as a language for thinking in, as much as knowledge to be gained. Only minimal background in mathematics is necessary. From this book the student can assimilate the basics and set out on the paths of computing with understanding and a platform for further study as needed.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makinson, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Collecting Things Together: Sets.- Comparing Things: Relations.- Associating One Item with Another: Functions.- Recycling Outputs as Inputs: Induction and Recursion.- Counting Things: Combinatorics.- Weighing the Odds: Probability.- Squirrel Math: Trees.- Yea and Nay: Propositional Logic.- Something about Everything: Quantificational Logic.

Über Autor(innen)

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.