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>British university, CS course Hmm.. In my experience this would have been discrete math at best which is normal in CS classes. You'd have to have taken an en
by sjg007 5y ago
>British university, CS course
Hmm.. In my experience this would have been discrete math at best which is normal in CS classes. You'd have to have taken an engineering elective or math elective to get linear algebra.
Today, with AI being so hot, I'd bet that the programs include math for engineers e.g. matrices and linear algebra. Maybe an intro course in stats and probability.
- arethuza 5y agoThat wasn't my experience in doing a CS degree in the 1980s - we basically did the same maths as the engineers for two years and then diverged into more discrete maths in 3rd year of a 4 year course. And this isn't even counting the pure CS mathematical components such as lambda calculus etc.
- dan-robertson 5y agoAt my university in the U.K. we called the kind of linear algebra that computer scientists do “vectors and matrices.” It involved grids of numbers and maybe things like decompositions and eigenvalues/vectors. Computer scientists might get to go into topics like numerical stability or decomposition that are useful for computation. These have lots of practical uses and are relevant to topics like graph theory or Markov chains. The thing we called “linear algebra” involved linear maps and vector spaces and bases and dual spaces and no grids of numbers.