Mathematical Structures (Discrete Mathematics)

Learning Outcomes:

• Understanding the importance of Mathematical Structures for Computer Science
• Defining sets, elements of sets, and subset/superset relationships
• Performing operations on sets such as Union, Intersection, Cardinality, Power Set, and Cartesian Product
• Defining Partition of a Set and a Quotient Set
• Understanding Strings as elements of a special set
• Using Binary Strings to represent sets in a computer
• Studying Relations, Orderings, Functions and Cardinality of Infinite Sets
• Applying Recursion and Induction
• Exploring Graphs and Probability
• Understanding independent events and binomial distribution
• Calculating mean and variance of a random variable
• Studying geometric distribution

Skills for module:

Mathematics

Discrete

Problem Solving

Critical Thinking

Time Management