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Hi, I wish to do Computer Science at university and I wanted ot ask. At most schools, Is discrete maths the only maths you need to know?

>> No.5378960

Discrete mathematics and at least differential calculus.

>> No.5378962

>>5378960
Thank you bro.

>> No.5380095

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena/547/index.html

>> No.5380120

>>5378941
I had to do all of Calc, Linear Algebra, and a Statistics course. And Discrete.

>> No.5380139

>>5380120
Plus graph theory and at least some more advanced group theory in algorithms

>> No.5380960

>>5378960

What the hell is 'differential' calculus?

>> No.5380970

>>5380960
calculus on something differentiable
Actually, "calculus" is something like a method, its semantics is distorted by ignorant people today

>> No.5380976

>>5378941
Sometimes discrete math and stat is all you need to know
And, I approve of the hot girl from Misfits

>> No.5380990

>>5380970
>calculus on something differentiable

What the hell are you talking about?

>> No.5381244

>>5380990
Not the one you responded to, but calculus comes from latin word calculus, which means "a small stone used for counting", that's why we have Lambda calculus, Hilbert calculus, propositional calculus etc.

>> No.5383499

>>5380960
It's the branch of math that studies infinitesimal and analytical properties of functions. 'Differential' is because you can study how different valued quantities maps to something, and you study what the differences of those quantities make.

>> No.5383658

>>5380095

Thanks, bro.

>> No.5383777

You generally take calc 1-2 (3?), linear, and discrete. But in practice you only really need linear and discrete for your class work.

If you like computer math, numerical analysis is something you should look into. You can take it as a required elective.

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>> No.5384557

What is "maths"? I've honestly never heard the term before I came to 4chan.

>> No.5384574

>>5384497
>too stupid for engineering
0/10

>> No.5384577

>>5384557
It's the British term for math, much like "flat" for apartment, "crisps" for chips and "rooty tooty point and shooty" for guns.

>> No.5384579

>>5384557
It's short for mathematics. A term that tooth-sucking limey british bastards like to use.

>> No.5384581

>>5384497
>implying everyone in the field of computer science is a code monkey

>> No.5386573

>>5384557
Maths > Math

>> No.5386661

At NTNU we have disc math and three calculus classes

>> No.5386789

At U of T, you 're prerequisites include calculus 1-3, vector calculus, and some abstract algebra for numerical analysis, and linear algebra up to fields in addition to descrete maths basically.