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Main Topics in Intro to Maths for CS & Textbook Offer John Barnden School of Computer Science University of Birmingham 2014/15

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Page 1: Main Topics in Intro to Maths for CS & Textbook Offer John Barnden School of Computer Science University of Birmingham 2014/15.

Main Topics in Intro to Maths for CS&

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John Barnden

School of Computer ScienceUniversity of Birmingham

2014/15

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Caution• The list of topics on the official web page for the module at

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/internal/modules/2014/20415/ is out of date.

• In particular, the module will do little or nothing on complex numbers, matrices, determinants or vectors.

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Main Topics (NOT in sequence)• Prime and co-prime numbers, factors of numbers.

• Equations and inequalities, including quadratic equations and simultaneous equations

• Manipulation of powers and surds

• Logarithms, exponential functions

• Functions in general, and graphs of functions

• Set theory

• Combinations and permutations

• Statistics

• Factorization of algebraic expressions

• Trigonometry

• Calculus: Differentiation, Integration