Does anyone know some good supplemental exercises to pair with this text?
Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
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Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#12CS shouldn't be in the title. If you learn everything in this set of notes you will have learned something close to a standard 3 year undergraduate math curriculum. So the only way it's related to CS is that undergraduate math is applicable to CS, as expected.
You may be taking too rigid a notion of CS...a lot of CS programs at least in American Universities are math programs...I got a minor in Applied math merely by declaring my desire for it without any extra classes. I would have gotten a double major in Applied Math and CS if I was willing to spend another semester in undergrad...point being Math and CS are not as far off.
Similar. The BS at my school hadn’t all the math of a minor. The BA was lighter on math, but many would use it to double major in math since the CS courseload was lighter.
Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#13CS shouldn't be in the title. If you learn everything in this set of notes you will have learned something close to a standard 3 year undergraduate math curriculum. So the only way it's related to CS is that undergraduate math is applicable to CS, as expected.
You may be taking too rigid a notion of CS...a lot of CS programs at least in American Universities are math programs...I got a minor in Applied math merely by declaring my desire for it without any extra classes. I would have gotten a double major in Applied Math and CS if I was willing to spend another semester in undergrad...point being Math and CS are not as far off.
Out of curiosity, what university did you go to? I attended the University of Texas and there was very little overlap between the math and CS curriculums [1].
The classes in common were lower division calculus (8 or 12 hours, depending if you took the condensed accelerated version), linear algebra (3 hours), and probability (3 hours).
Students could of course take more math electives, but you could get a CS degree with just 14 hours of math [2] [3] [4].
[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/images/16-18%2...
[2] Discrete math is a requirement for CS, but not for math, so I didn't count it. If you include it, that raises the number of hours to 17. Either way, that's only a semester's worth of math.
[3] CS students are required to take 24 hours of upper division electives, many of which are math oriented, but based on this list, it'd still be possible to fill those 24 hours with non-math related topics: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/undergraduate-program/academics/cu...
[4] I realize that many classes in the core CS curriculum are math oriented, like algorithms, however this would not fulfill a math requirement. One couldn't pick up a minor in math based on the core curriculum alone and would need to deliberately add math electives.
Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#14CS shouldn't be in the title. If you learn everything in this set of notes you will have learned something close to a standard 3 year undergraduate math curriculum. So the only way it's related to CS is that undergraduate math is applicable to CS, as expected.
It’s CS and Engineering. Most engineering degrees require quite a bit of applied math too.
Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#15Don't know what to make of these notes. A bit of a kitchen sink. And too brief for learning the materials.
Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#16CS shouldn't be in the title. If you learn everything in this set of notes you will have learned something close to a standard 3 year undergraduate math curriculum. So the only way it's related to CS is that undergraduate math is applicable to CS, as expected.
A lot of the math in the notes are not covered in the standard engineering mathematics curriculum. Chapter 1 is not. No one taught me about rings except in discrete (just briefly), and the next time I visited it would be in algorithm and cryptography class. I honestly cannot recall my exact curriculum, but a quick glance at the table of content, more than half unknown to me. Now, different school, different teacher w…
Schools usually have two or three abstract algebra classes just to cover materials in Chapter 1 and a couple later chapters (polynomials, modules, etc).
Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#17Does anyone know some good supplemental exercises to pair with this text?
You can check out the homeworks from the class these notes were intended for: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis515/cis515-hw-mid-fin-16.html
Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#18CS is basically math++, i.e. a CS graduate is considered elite, capable of mastering in 1 year what math graduates do in 2 years. Deal with it!
Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may be taking too rigid a notion of CS...a lot of CS programs at least in American Universities are math programs...I got a minor in Applied math merely by declaring my desire for it without any extra classes. I would have gotten a double major in Applied Math and CS if I was willing to spend another semester in undergrad...point being Math and CS are not as far off.
Out of curiosity, what university did you go to? I attended the University of Texas and there was very little overlap between the math and CS curriculums [1]. The classes in common were lower division calculus (8 or 12 hours, depending if you took the condensed accelerated version), linear algebra (3 hours), and probability (3 hours). Students could of course take more math electives, but you could get a CS degree wi…
It depends very much on the school. I attended two different programs. The first was a software engineering degree with IMHO an entirely insufficient math requirement of basically calculus plus a combined discrete math and linear algebra lower division class. The second university didn’t have a computer science program per se — they had a math degree plus algorithms class and called it a computer science concentration.
Having been through both I can see the logic of both approaches.
Re: Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
#20CS is basically math++, i.e. a CS graduate is considered elite, capable of mastering in 1 year what math graduates do in 2 years. Deal with it!
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.