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Mathematics Curriculum and the Needs of Computer Science

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In the summer of 1982, the Sloan Foundation conducted a workshop on the curriculum for the first two years of college mathematics. Scherlis and Shaw were invited to contribute a paper on the relation between computer science and mathematics, especially the support that computer science needs from the mathematics curriculum [101], The paper is included here to elaborate the nature of our dependence on mathematics.

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Scherlis, W.L., Shaw, M. (1985). Mathematics Curriculum and the Needs of Computer Science. In: Shaw, M. (eds) The Carnegie-Mellon Curriculum for Undergraduate Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5080-7_8

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