Re-learning Math

I am embarking on revising some Math I learnt back in high school and college. Reason: I am reading a couple of books (on Lisp, Data Structures, Algorithms etc.), all of which converge in the assumption that you still remember calculus and differential equations.

I am trying to sort out topics that I think will be important for computer science. Help me add to the list:

- Differentiation and Integration
- Differential Equations
- Probability
- Functions, limits and continuity
- Matrices and Determinants

Thanks.

The single most important one is to have a good grasp of logic and induction.

Yves is right, I think your list is too much long, if you're not studying to implement new algorithms, analize them, solve math problems with innovative algorithms like Dr. Knuth did with "The art of computer programming" books, you do not need that list to understand what you write in your code. Can I ask what book are you using about?

It wouldn't hurt to learn all that, IMHO.

I love doing binary, hexadecimal and decimal conversions. Easy to learn and rules are simple.

If I am not wrong, they teach those topics at University and more(like Linear Algebra and Nurmercial Methods and etc.).

I took up a 1 year course in 2001 to learn those Maths but I have forgotten most of it. Of all I have learnt, I found Probabilities and Statistics are the least useful to me.

When you are learning Maths, you have to practise often else you will forgot. :)

Discrete Maths would be useful to us, programmers but I did not learn that but planning to.


Edited: Added Discrete Maths

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When you are learning Maths, you have to practise often else you will forgot.

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I cannot agree with you more!!! There's a link posted by kcor to a site that has A LOT of math/algorithm problems. I tried the first one in volume one ... loved it and now I'm doing the second one.

Here's the direct link (hope this doesn't constitute as a cross posting!)

http://acm.uva.es/problemset/

Best,

Nao