Mathematics for Computer Science

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75 points·Anon84··3 comments

I wonder a bit for whom this is interesting. This seems to cover very basic university-level math. Everyone who studied computer science should already have covered far more than this.

Or this is for people who did not study computer science yet but plan to?

Or for people from other fields unrelated to computer science? But then, why this specific course, and not any of the more generic math courses?

I would say as someone who didn't study computer science, but has been coding for well over a decade now and has a moderate interest in what goes on under the hood, that, without yet reading through the material, this will probably be useful to me.

Could also be useful as a refresher to people I would think. Something I noticed in my statistics course of my Masters was a lot of cargo culting maths as opposed to true understanding, because knowledge fades a lot after a few years not using it. Reviewing maths has given me more confidence that I understand what's actually happening when I run statistical analyses. It's probably the same for someone doing a lot of coding, you're not drawing on university level maths THAT much, the knowledge is necessary when you truly need it, but it gets stale over time.

Something that provides an overview of what's important to Comp. Sci. without the need to wade through an entire University maths course seems useful as an abstract concept at least.

Thank you for sharing. I think this will help a lot of newcomers.

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