[Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Mike Small <smallm at panix.com> wrote:
> Daniel Barrett <dbarrett at blazemonger.com> writes:
>...
> was. Just cheesy. If CS programs do a really pretty discrete math course
> and/or other math courses I don't know about and do it as a proper
> university course, great.

Tufts has an Undergraduate Discrete Math course jointly taught by the
Math and CS departments:

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http://math.tufts.edu/courses/courses.htm

Math 61 - Discrete Mathematics (formerly Math 22; cross-listed as Comp Sci 22)
Every semester.
Sets, relations and functions, logic and methods of proof,
combinatorics, graphs and digraphs.

Recommendations: MATH 32 (formely MATH 11) or COMP 11 or permission of
instructor.
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It is a requirement for the CS major.   Math 32 is Calculus I.  Comp
11 is the Introduction to Computing class for prospective CS majors.
My wife is a CS professor at Tufts with a Math Ph.D from MIT and
frequently teaches that course.   She definitely teaches it as a
"proper university course".  The CS department needs its majors to
understand that stuff and how to do proofs.   So they have a strong
incentive to make sure that it is done right.

Bill Bogstad