Master 2023/2024

Discrete Mathematics for Application and Algorithm Development

Type: Elective course (Data Science)

Area of studies: Applied Mathematics and Informatics

Delivered by: School of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence

Where: Faculty of Computer Science

When: 1 year, 1 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Stepan Kuznetsov

Master’s programme: Data Science

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 28

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course includes the basics of mathematical logic, graph theory, combinatorics, and formal language theory. The emphasis is put upon the algorithmic side: mathematical results act as a support for effecient algorithms operating on graphs, strings, and, finally, parsing algorithms for regular expressions and contextfree grammars. The course is actually twofold: besides usual «chalk-and-blackboard» mathematical part, it also includes a practical one, i.e., implementing the algorithms discussed in the course. The students are supposed and encouraged to (but not restricted to) use the Python language. For the last part, parsing algorithms, PyBison is also welcome.