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Volume 46 , Issue 9 (September 2003) table of contents
Why CS students need math

SPECIAL ISSUE: Why universities require computer science students to take math table of contents

Pages: 36 - 39

Year of Publication: 2003

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Keith Devlin

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The main benefit of learning and doing mathematics is that it develops the ability to reason about formally defined abstract structures like those in computer science and its applications.

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