Saturday, March 18, 2017

Free Computer Science Math Book

You can download in PDF a free copy of a book on Mathematics for Computer Science.  The book is Mathematics for Computer Science by Eric Lehman, F Thomson Leighton, and Albert R Meyer.

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

The book is almost a thousand pages long and it is not a cream-puff.   Leighton is with MIT.  It is used with this free on-line course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-fall-2010/index.htm

Some computer science work is very mathematical.  Look at the book Communicating Sequential Processes by C. A. R. Hoare.  It is very mathematical.  This is a book and topic that you might want to at least glance at so you can see another way to look at parallel processing.
Here is the book in PDF:  http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf

Here is a Wikipedia article on Communicating Sequential Processes and another article on Tony Hoare.

Software is pretty cool.  Enjoy your reading!

Robert

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