Main Topics in Intro to Maths for CS

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Caution

• The list of topics on the official web page for
  the module at http//www.cs.bham.ac.uk/internal/mo
  dules/2014/20415/ is out of date.
• In particular, the module will do little or
  nothing on complex numbers, matrices,
  determinants or vectors.

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Main Topics (NOT in sequence)

• Prime and co-prime numbers, factors of numbers.
• Equations and inequalities, including quadratic
  equations and simultaneous equations
• Manipulation of powers and surds
• Logarithms, exponential functions
• Functions in general, and graphs of functions
• Set theory
• Combinations and permutations
• Statistics
• Factorization of algebraic expressions
• Trigonometry
• Calculus Differentiation, Integration