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About the Course

Mathematical thinking is crucial in all areas of computer science: algorithms, bioinformatics, computer graphics, data science, machine learning, etc. In this course, we will learn the most important tools used in discrete mathematics: induction, recursion, logic, invariants, examples, optimality. We will use these tools to answer typical programming questions like: How can we be certain a solution exists? Am I sure my program computes the optimal answer? Do each of these objects meet the given requirements? In the course, we use a try-this-before-we-explain-everything approach: you will be solving many interactive (and mobile friendly) puzzles that were carefully designed to allow you to invent many of the important ideas and concepts yourself. Prerequisites: 1. We assume only basic math (e.g., we expect you to know what is a square or how to add fractions), common sense and curiosity. 2. Basic programming knowledge is necessary as some quizzes require programming in Python....

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AD
Mar 25, 2019

The teachers are informative and good. They explain the topic in a way that we can easily understand. The slides provide all the information that is needed. The external tools are fun and informative.

JK
Jan 8, 2021

I personally have very limited coding skills. this course was able to build my funadmentals in both math and science while understanding more of the bridge between the two. Very thankful for it.

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By Gary M

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Aug 15, 2020

Very enjoyable course - I learnt a lot taking this course.

By Mir H

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Jun 20, 2020

this course is very good to learn new tricks and concepts.

By Vandana S

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Apr 19, 2020

It was a very nice and simple course. Explained very well.

By Aryan R

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Jul 21, 2020

Awesome course if you wanna learn about proofs and logic

By Xiaoyuan C

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Dec 21, 2017

A very interesting introduction to discrete mathematics.

By Yugesh K

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Sep 11, 2020

A course on Discrete Mathematics can't get any better!!

By Kiran K K

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Jul 19, 2020

skills learned induction, mathematical logic... in few.

By Ryan G H

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Jan 24, 2020

Great Course. It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot.

By Aruneema D

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Sep 26, 2020

Really Nice! I would like to do more courses like this

By Wonder K G

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Aug 29, 2020

This is very interesting.. my head is about to explode

By Fahmida B

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Jun 23, 2020

Its e great experience. I Learn every topic clearly.

By Gibran E C

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Jan 2, 2018

Awesome course. You'll need some basic python for it.

By Sonu K

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Nov 30, 2020

Nice Experience on coursera.Good learning platform

By Harshitha

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Jun 14, 2020

An excellent course to brush up the fundamentals .

By Kundan s

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Sep 6, 2020

Thank you for such exceptionally precious course

By Myo T

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Jun 12, 2020

A great help to my study of mathematical proofs.

By Stefan D

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Nov 3, 2017

Fun introduction to proofs and logical thinking

By Khaled A

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Oct 6, 2020

Great instructors. Well organized structure.

By idan b

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Oct 5, 2017

its very clear to step 1 of starting

By Shreyash P

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Sep 9, 2020

learned new technique will help in dsa

By Tyler E

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Jul 9, 2020

Lots of fun and very clear explanations!!

By Kunal A

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Jun 18, 2020

Really Good Course to improve your skills

By Yash

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Jan 4, 2020

wonderful course improved my skills a lot

By MARIN, M A (

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Mar 14, 2020

Puzzle activities are very fun to do. :)

By NITIN K

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Mar 8, 2020

It was great. I learnt a lot of things.

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