Guide to Discrete Mathematics
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"This book is . an encyclopedic overview of topics of and related to discrete mathematics in the broad sense, including many topics from computer science and software engineering. . Each chapter has a summary and a list of review question which help the reader to recapitulate the contents . . for each topic the reader is able to grasp the specific flavor and can move forward to more specific and advanced literature." (Dieter Riebesehl, zbMATH 1358.68004, 2017)More details
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Dr. Gerard O'Regan is a CMMI software process improvement consultant with research interests including software quality and software process improvement, mathematical approaches to software quality, and the history of computing. He is the author of such Springer titles as Introduction to the History of Computing , Pillars of Computing , Introduction to Software Quality , Giants of Computing , and Mathematics in Computing .
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Mathematics in Civilization.- Sets, Relations and Functions.- Number Theory.- Mathematical Induction and Recursion.- Sequences, Series and Permutations and Combinations.- Algebra.- Automata Theory.- Matrix Theory.- Graph Theory.- Cryptography.- Coding Theory.- Language Theory and Semantics.- Computability and Decidability.- A Short History of Logic.- Propositional and Predicate Logic.- Advanced Topics in Logic.- Software Engineering Mathematics.- Formal Methods.- Z Formal Specification Language.- Probability, Statistics and Applications.
