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[ 201SYMRCACV12 ] VL Computer Algebra for Concrete Mathematics

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Es ist eine neuere Version 2019W dieser LV im Curriculum Master's programme Bioinformatics (discontinued) 2019W vorhanden.
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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS B3 - Bachelor's programme 3. year Mathematics Carsten Schneider 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Technical Mathematics 2017W
Objectives The lecture can be viewed as an algorithmic supplement to the classical book "Concrete Mathematics" by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik. Namely, it presents computer algebra tools for dealing with four mathematical concepts which play a fundamental role in many different areas of mathematics and computer science: symbolic sums, recurrence (difference) equations, generating functions, and asymptotic estimates. Their key features, in isolation or in combination, their mastery by paper and pencil or by computer programs, and their applications, also to "real world problems" like e.g. the analysis of algorithms, are studied.
Subject Manipulation of formal power series, polynomials, c-finite sequences, hypergeometric series, holonomic sequences and series, and symbolic sums; application of the toolbox to concrete examples in computer science and combinatorics.
Criteria for evaluation oral exam
Methods symbolic computation and in particular computer algebra, basic linear algebra, asymptotics
Language English
Study material "The Concrete Tetrahedron" (Springer) by Manuel Kauers and Peter Paule
Changing subject? No
Corresponding lecture (*)TM1WHVOANKO: VO Analytische Kombinatorik (3 ECTS)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants -
Assignment procedure Direct assignment