Talk:Discrete mathematics
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| Needs better overview of major areas, plus history/motivation Tompw 13:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC) | |||||
In fact, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) amended the guideline so that a discrete methematics course is required.
What guideline? -- Wapcaplet 01:59 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- I don't know. The textbook I am using says
- Subsequently, discrete mathematics courses were endorsed by many groups for several different audiences, including mathematics and computer science majors. A panel of the mathematical Association of America (MAA) endorsed a year-long course in discrete mathematics. The Educational Acctivities Board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recommended a freshman discrete mathematics course. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE accrediation guidelines mandated a discrete mathematics course.
I just summarised this. Do we have to specify what guideline? Is it really significant to do that? -- Taku 05:17 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] AKA
So you could also call this fundamentally-unfundamental mathematics, fabricated mathematics or even pseudo-mathematics???
[edit] Countable Sets?
The article says that Most, if not all, of the objects studied in finite mathematics are countable sets, such as the integers. Are they? The article lists linear algebra and set theory as things included in discrete mathematics. In linear algebra one often studies vector spaces with countable dimension, but real and complex vector spaces of any dimension are obviously not countable. Clearly set theory is not restricted to countable sets. Josh Cherry 04:20, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
As you note, set theory, of course, goes above and beyond the countable, and is usually considered discrete math nonetheless. And, naturally, one could study uncountable graphs in graph theory, etc, so countability is hardly essential to discrete math. Nonetheless, I'm surprised to see linear algebra mentioned here. Is that really generally considered discrete math? I wouldn't have thought so; it doesn't have the right "flavor" in my mind. What are other people's opinions? -Chinju 19:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Discrete maths apply to ALL computer programming languages, etc.
"Discrete mathematics is a common type of mathematics used particularly in the web programming languages, PHP, ASP, and Perl."
- Yeah, I just deleted that silliness. Josh Cherry 00:08, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Dewarneb
What does "Dewarneb" have to do with discrete math?
Actually, if I were a registered user I would nominate Dewarneb for deletion, seeing as it gets no google hits outside of WP and seems unverifiable. 70.231.146.142 22:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
