[HN Gopher] Mathematics for Computer Science
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Mathematics for Computer Science
        
       Author : Anon84
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2024-03-26 18:19 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (openlearninglibrary.mit.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (openlearninglibrary.mit.edu)
        
       | robblbobbl wrote:
       | Thank you for sharing. I think this will help a lot of newcomers.
        
       | albertzeyer wrote:
       | I wonder a bit for whom this is interesting. This seems to cover
       | very basic university-level math. Everyone who studied computer
       | science should already have covered far more than this.
       | 
       | Or this is for people who did not study computer science yet but
       | plan to?
       | 
       | Or for people from other fields unrelated to computer science?
       | But then, why this specific course, and not any of the more
       | generic math courses?
        
         | SuperNinKenDo wrote:
         | I would say as someone who didn't study computer science, but
         | has been coding for well over a decade now and has a moderate
         | interest in what goes on under the hood, that, without yet
         | reading through the material, this will probably be useful to
         | me.
         | 
         | Could also be useful as a refresher to people I would think.
         | Something I noticed in my statistics course of my Masters was a
         | lot of cargo culting maths as opposed to true understanding,
         | because knowledge fades a lot after a few years not using it.
         | Reviewing maths has given me more confidence that I understand
         | what's actually happening when I run statistical analyses. It's
         | probably the same for someone doing a lot of coding, you're not
         | drawing on university level maths THAT much, the knowledge is
         | necessary when you truly need it, but it gets stale over time.
         | 
         | Something that provides an overview of what's important to
         | Comp. Sci. without the need to wade through an entire
         | University maths course seems useful as an abstract concept at
         | least.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2024-03-26 23:02 UTC)