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by brudgers 504 days ago
“Mathematical Preliminaries” is Chapter One, Section 2 of The Art of Computer Programming. The rest of the book is also relevant to programming. And an adequate challenge for lifetime learning.
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Just wanted to share an anecdote. When I first checked out this book from the library I couldn’t even get through the first math concept - mathematical induction.

It’s famously a brief intro before the rest of the book, but more math than most everyone learned.

Years later I came back after graduate school etc, and yeah chapter 0 is kind of basic material the reader should know :)