Lecturer: Dr M. Richards (mr@cl.cam.ac.uk)
No. of lectures: 4
Aims
This course is a brief introduction to discrete mathematics. It covers core elements of the subject to make the Data Structures and Algorithms course accessible to people who have not seen any significant discrete mathematics before. In particular, it covers topics which are covered in Part IA which are useful for the Data Structures and Algorithms course.
Lectures
Objectives
At the end of the course students should
Recommended books
For many people the best advice is simply to read the books in the
Data Structures and Algorithms course. The
book
Lipschutz, S. (1976). Discrete Mathematics. McGraw-Hill
has a good ``solved problems'' approach which may be useful for students
who have not seen discrete mathematics before.
Those who would like to know much more about discrete mathematics
can try:
Stanat, D.F. & McAllister, D.F. (1977). Discrete Mathematics in
Computer Science. Prentice-Hall.
Mattson, H.F. Jr (1993). Discrete Mathematics with Applications.
Wiley.
Skvarcius, R. & Robinson, W.B. (1986). Discrete Mathematics with
Computer Science Applications. Benjamin/Cummings.
Graham, R.L., Knuth, D.E. & Patashnik, O. (1989). Concrete
Mathematics. Addison-Wesley.