CS 2800 - Discrete Structures (Fall 2023)

TA of Undergraduate Course, Department of Computer Science, Cornell Univeristy, 2023

Course Description: Covers the mathematics that underlies most of computer science. Topics include mathematical induction; logical proof; propositional and predicate calculus; combinatorics and discrete mathematics; some basic elements of basic probability theory; basic number theory; sets, functions, and relations; graphs; and finite-state machines. These topics are discussed in the context of applications to many areas of computer science, such as the RSA cryptosystem and web searching.