Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science. By Ronald Lewis
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science. By Ronald Lewis
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10.1080/00029890.1991.11995793
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1991-10
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D. Knuth;Oren Patashnik;E. Bender
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作者：
D. Knuth;Oren Patashnik;E. Bender
当前的大多数微积分文本几乎可以用剪刀，胶带和颜色的Xerox机器彼此创建。尝试的创新落在了路边。在我看来，这种状况似乎是备受推动的一系列，以促进更多的工程师和改进的科学教育，而不是由于标准演算课程的完美而不是完美。这导致对“服务课程”的巨大需求，其中有相当标准的“必经”主题。为了自己的缘故，许多有意的学生对数学不感兴趣。这些进化的压力使标准的演算文本变成了巨大的书籍，旨在以各种科学课程要求的符号识别和旋转交流技能编程无趣的学生。计算机的扩散导致了对计算机科学家的需求，使工程师对工程师的需求相形见war。对于计算机科学专业的学生来说，有一份必须涵盖的数学主题列表，这些主题是由组合，逻辑，数学语言学和概率理论绘制的。许多计算机科学专业的专业本身对数学不感兴趣。设置很熟悉。计算机科学家的基本数学课程是否注定要与工程师和科学家的基本微积分课程相同？关于“离散数学”的新书的速度表明。
Most current calculus texts could almost have been created from one another with scissors, tape, and a color Xerox machine. Attempted innovations fall by the wayside. Rather than being due to the perfection of the standard calculus course, this state of affairs seems to me to be a sequence of the post-Sputnik push for more engineers and for improved science education. This led to a huge demand for "service courses" having a fairly standard list of "must-cover" topics. Many of the intended students had little interest in mathematics for its own sake. These evolutionary pressures shaped the standard calculus text into a massive tome, designed to program uninterested students in the symbol-recognition and rotemanipulation skills required by various science courses. The proliferation of computers has led to a demand for computer scientists dwarfing the post-Sputnik demand for engineers. There is a list of must-cover mathematical topics for computer science students that has been drawn from combinatorics, logic, mathematical linguistics, and probability theory. Many computer science majors are not interested in mathematics per se. The setting is familiar. Is the basic mathematics course for computer scientists doomed to the same fate as the basic calculus course for engineers and scientists? The spate of new books on "discrete mathematics" suggests that it is.