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hai to all,
i did some programming in Lisp (6 months) & next i want to learn C++. i
searched all the archives of "comp.lang.c++" & ACCU too & decided "C++
Primer" 3/e as my text book. (unfortunatley i tried but Accelerated C++
is not available in India, not even "C++ Primer 4/e).
anyway, my question:
I want to start doing math only for learning the following skills:
"logic, problem-solving & pattern-recognition", skills of a
mathematician which i will apply to programming & also to
general-learning in life (1). i searched on net & found "Donald Knuth",
the ultimate authority on these skills.
"Concrete Mathemetics" is available here, but hell, ...it is *faaaar*
above my head. but i see it as a most usefull book to learn the
skill-set i mentioned earlier. so i am banging my head into it. i will
be doing it 1 hour a day, other time will be spent on doing programming
. so will you recommend some books out of the following list of
algebra books as a prerequisite to DON Knuth's Concrete Mathemetics (or
you want to say something else?)?
Higher Algebra - Hall & Knight
Higher Algebra - Bernard & Child
Algebra for beginners - Hall & Knight
Algebra - Artin
Algebra - Lang, Serge
Elmentry Algebra - Rich
Algebra - Moh
Algebra for programming - bird, Moor, De
I am a B.Sc. graduate & undestand college-level maths like: Binomial
theorm, Permutation & Combinations, sum of n terms, quadrilaterals,
isoceles & equilateral triangles, vertically opposite angles etc. etc.
*please* bear with me if it is *sick* , its my 2nd post on some
newsgroup.
thanks
<< "uttre"
(1) sometime ago i read a blog of Stevey-Drunken's on "Maths everyday".
the distinctional points he proposed in his blog are exactly similar to
the ones i have got after doing some programming for 6 months. but he
had his points by reading "John Von Neumann and the Origins of Modern
Computing". I dont know him & neither i read that book but the points
he noticed & points i noticed are similar in many respects.
i did some programming in Lisp (6 months) & next i want to learn C++. i
searched all the archives of "comp.lang.c++" & ACCU too & decided "C++
Primer" 3/e as my text book. (unfortunatley i tried but Accelerated C++
is not available in India, not even "C++ Primer 4/e).
anyway, my question:
I want to start doing math only for learning the following skills:
"logic, problem-solving & pattern-recognition", skills of a
mathematician which i will apply to programming & also to
general-learning in life (1). i searched on net & found "Donald Knuth",
the ultimate authority on these skills.
"Concrete Mathemetics" is available here, but hell, ...it is *faaaar*
above my head. but i see it as a most usefull book to learn the
skill-set i mentioned earlier. so i am banging my head into it. i will
be doing it 1 hour a day, other time will be spent on doing programming
. so will you recommend some books out of the following list of
algebra books as a prerequisite to DON Knuth's Concrete Mathemetics (or
you want to say something else?)?
Higher Algebra - Hall & Knight
Higher Algebra - Bernard & Child
Algebra for beginners - Hall & Knight
Algebra - Artin
Algebra - Lang, Serge
Elmentry Algebra - Rich
Algebra - Moh
Algebra for programming - bird, Moor, De
I am a B.Sc. graduate & undestand college-level maths like: Binomial
theorm, Permutation & Combinations, sum of n terms, quadrilaterals,
isoceles & equilateral triangles, vertically opposite angles etc. etc.
*please* bear with me if it is *sick* , its my 2nd post on some
newsgroup.
thanks
<< "uttre"
(1) sometime ago i read a blog of Stevey-Drunken's on "Maths everyday".
the distinctional points he proposed in his blog are exactly similar to
the ones i have got after doing some programming for 6 months. but he
had his points by reading "John Von Neumann and the Origins of Modern
Computing". I dont know him & neither i read that book but the points
he noticed & points i noticed are similar in many respects.