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by Jon Pierre Fortney (Author)
This book is intended for a first or second-year discrete mathematics course for computer science majors. It covers many important mathematical topics essential for future computer science majors, such as algorithms, number representations, logic, set theory, Boolean algebra, functions, combinatorics etc.
Author Biography
Jon Pierre Fortney graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 with a B.A. in Mathematics and Actuarial Science and a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering. Prior to returning to graduate school he worked as both an environmental engineer and as an actuarial analyst. He graduated from Arizona State University in 2008 with a Ph.D. in Mathematics, specializing in Geometric Mechanics. Since 2012 he has worked at Zayed University in Dubai. This is his second mathematics textbook.