PROBABILITY AND COMPUTING - RANDOMIZATION AND PROBABILISTIC IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Greatly expanded, this new edition requires only an elementary background in discrete mathematics and offers a comprehensive introduction to the role of randomization and probabilistic techniques in modern computer science. Newly added chapters and sections cover topics including normal distributions, sample complexity, VC dimension, Rademacher complexity, power laws and related distributions, cuckoo hashing, and the Lovasz Local Lemma. Material relevant to machine learning and big data analysis enables students to learn modern techniques and applications. Among the many new exercises and examples are programming-related exercises that provide students with excellent training in solving relevant problems. This book provides an indispensable teaching tool to accompany a one- or two-semester course for advanced undergraduate students in computer science and applied mathematics. Features Summary This greatly expanded new edition offers a comprehensive introduction to randomization and probabilistic techniques in modern computer science. Author Michael Mitzenmacher (Author), Eli Upfal (Author) Publisher Cambridge UniversityPress Release date 20170630 Pages 488 ISBN 1-107-15488-X ISBN 13 978-1-107-15488-9