Mathematics for Applied Computing

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Details

Code 11191

Level of study First Year

Credit value 10

Semester 2

Module description

Detailed Syllabus:
Introduction to Propositional Logic (PL):

  • Elementary propositions, connectives and their truth tables, formulae in PL
  • Formalisation of arguments in natural language, interpretation of arguments in PL
  • PropL as a formal language
  • Truth tables, Disjunctive and Conjunctive Normal Form (DNF)
  • Logical consequence: proof by truth-table, formal proof, proof by contradiction


Introduction to matrices
  • Introduction to matrices
  • Simple operations on matrices
  • Matrices as transformations
  • Special types of matrices


Introduction to Probability and Inference:
  • Estimating discrete probability distributions
  • Joint probabilities, conditional probabilities and prior probabilities
  • Bayes¿ theorem and simple statistical inference
  • Introduction to graphs and directed graphs
  • Introduction to Markov models and transition probability matrices