I'm a great fan of this wonderful book (Graham, Knuth, & Patashnik) myself; but let's just take a look at the publisher's blurb for a minute. << "More concretely," the authors explain, "it is the controlled manipulation of mathematical formulas, using a collection of techniques for solving problems." >> I think that's going to involve heavily what's usually called "algebra". << Major topics include: *Sums *Recurrences *Integer functions *Elementary number theory *Binomial coefficients *Generating functions *Discrete probability *Asymptotic methods >> You will surely make little sense of the final topic --- as well as much of the remainder in practice --- without a good grasp of "calculus". Fred Lunnon On 8/2/12, Ray Tayek <rtayek@ca.rr.com> wrote:
At 10:03 AM 7/30/2012, you wrote:
For what it is worth, I think it would be absolutely absurd to allow getting a CS college degree without knowing calculus.
i think this stuff http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Computer-Science/dp/02...
is way more important and useful than calculus.
thanks
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