Subjects in Discrete Mathematics
- Logic – a study of reasoning
- Set theory – a study of collections of elements
- Number theory –
- Combinatorics – a study of counting
- Graph theory –
- Digital geometry and digital topology
- Algorithmics – a study of methods of calculation
- Information theory –
- Computability and complexity theories – dealing with theoretical and practical limitations of algorithms
- Elementary probability theory and Markov chains
- Linear algebra – a study of related linear equations
- Functions –
- Partially ordered set –
- Probability –
- Proofs –
- Counting –
- Relation –
Read more about this topic: Outline Of Discrete Mathematics
Famous quotes containing the words subjects, discrete and/or mathematics:
“I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)