Mathematics for computer students - Rex Wilton

Mathematics for Computer Students is a new text which takes a fresh approach to mathematics as it relates to good computing practice. The book is a new addition to the popular Threshold series which have been widely adopted on business and computing courses throughout colleges of further education worldwide. The book approaches the subject by encouraging students to understand the relationship between mathematics and computing so that they can select appropriate mathematical processes rather than seeing the former only as an assortment of disconnected practices. To help the student to see familiar ground between the two subjects the author considers the practical applications of mathematics for computing, before approaching the formal mathematics. He considers, step-by-step, the following:. * The skills of creating mathematical models - numerical and logical. * The existing processes for manipulating those models. * The special demands imposed by the computer. And throughout he considers how accuracy can be safeguarded and the control of the processing. The text contains exercises both within the text and at the end of each chapter.