1981
DOI: 10.1080/00029890.1981.11995300
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Computer Science, Mathematics, and the Undergraduate Curricula in Both

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“…While Finite Mathematics courses lack a well prescribed content and is not always equivalent to Discrete Mathematics, for over thirty years I have been much influenced by the writings of Ralston (1981Ralston ( , 1986Ralston ( , 1991Ralston ( , 1992). On the one hand, Ralston and Young (1983) stated: "[we] think it's important that we recognize, as Bill Lucas did, the lack of coherence in current finite mathematics courses …" Nonetheless later Ralston (1992) laid out a syllabus for Discrete Mathematics that has very much influenced my own course and choice of topics.…”
Section: Criteria For Modulesmentioning
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“…While Finite Mathematics courses lack a well prescribed content and is not always equivalent to Discrete Mathematics, for over thirty years I have been much influenced by the writings of Ralston (1981Ralston ( , 1986Ralston ( , 1991Ralston ( , 1992). On the one hand, Ralston and Young (1983) stated: "[we] think it's important that we recognize, as Bill Lucas did, the lack of coherence in current finite mathematics courses …" Nonetheless later Ralston (1992) laid out a syllabus for Discrete Mathematics that has very much influenced my own course and choice of topics.…”
Section: Criteria For Modulesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is worth noting that Kemeny (1959) was published well before the contemporary calculus and discrete mathematics reform movements that Ralston (1981) and others have regarded as a response to the rise of computer science and the concurrent rise of the importance of discrete mathematics. Further, while many remember Kemeny as the co-inventor in 1964 of the BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) computer language, it is worth sharing three other aspects of his career: (a) his Jewish family fled Hungary because of the Nazis, and many of his relatives died in the Holocaust; (b) he worked with some of the twentieth century's greatest luminaries: Einstein, Feynman, Church, and von Neumann; and, (c) his interests transcended mathematics as he had a strong formal background in philosophy and served as President of Dartmouth for eleven years.…”
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“…Segundo RALSTON (1981), a proposta de se constituir a anunciada disciplina a partir da reunião de conteúdos pertencentes ao saber de referência da MD 19 que já se encontrava epistemologicamente consolidado quando foi constituída disciplina no bacharelado em questão no entendimento de que o computador seria uma estrutura finita, cuja existência, funcionamento e propriedades seriam melhor compreendidos no contexto de objetos igualmente inteiros e finitos, a exemplo do algoritmo, para o qual conhecimentos em lógica formal, teoria de conjunto e grafos, análise combinatória, indução e recursão seriam essenciais para o aprendizado de seus fundamentos.…”
Section: A Constituição Da Disciplina De MD Na Ciência Da Computaçãounclassified
“…Assim sendo e a exemplo do que compreenderam seus antecessores (BRADLEY, 1988;MAA, 1986;ATCHISON, 1981) Ao ser definido ainda como uma "habilidade de se aplicar técnicas matemáticas, conceitos e processos, explicita ou implicitamente, para a solução de problemas" (HAMER et al, 2001, p.114), o pensamento matemático seria uma estratégia de valorização da Matemática no currículo da CC por que tem nele agrupadas as atitudes, capacidades e habilidades de interesse para a formação, no pressuposto de que conhecimentos especializados da área computacional hoje aprendidos amanhã estariam obsoletos; porém, o raciocínio lógico, as habilidades de abstração e resolução de problemas etc, continuariam relevantes e permaneceriam atuais (MAA, 1986;RALSTON, 1981;BERZTISS, 1976).…”
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