Programming and Mathematical Thinking

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Programming and Mathematical Thinking A Gentle Introduction to Discrete Math Featuring Python Allan M. Stavely The New Mexico Tech Press Socorro, New Mexico, USA. Programming and Mathematical Thinking A Gentle Introduction to Discrete Math Featuring Python Allan M. Stavely Copyright 2014 Allan M. Stavely First Edition Content of this book available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike License. See for details. Publisher's Cataloguing-in-Publication data Stavely, Allan M. Programming and Mathematical Thinking : a gentle introduction to discrete math featuring Python / Allan M.

programmers never learn, and we'll see how to use them to create simple and elegant solutions to programming problems. For example, one recurring theme in the book is the concept of a monoid. It turns out that monoids (more than, for example, groups and semigroups) are ubiquitous in the data types and data structures that programmers use most ...

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