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  2. From: Wintermute <3mal5@qlink.queensu.ca>
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  4. Subject: Re: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst?
  5. Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 07:03:13 -0500
  6. Organization: System Infinity
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  14.  
  15. John Tessin wrote:
  16. > 
  17. > Greg Higgins (higgins@cs.niu.edu) wrote:
  18. > : is overexposed to a calculus oriented curriculum. You might try
  19. > : looking into some beginning number theory texts. Mathematics is a
  20. > : huge field of knowledge; the glimpse you get in high school is only
  21. > : one small slice of it (and not necessarily the best slice :-) ).
  22. > 
  23. > Symbolic logic is also helpful.  They are sometimes carried in philosophy
  24. > departments.
  25.  
  26. Some handy computer/information science theoretical areas:
  27.  
  28.   - Discrete mathematics, including set theory, graph theory, combinatorics
  29.   - Algebra, including matrices, vectors
  30.   - Symbolic logic, including propositional logic, predicate calculus
  31.   - Algorithms, including complexity and computability issues
  32.  
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  34. Wintermute  <3mal5@qlink.queensu.ca>  <http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3mal5/>
  35.  
  36. "If I really knew how to write, I could write something that someone 
  37. could read and it would kill them."  -  william s. burroughs
  38.