6.1200J | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate

Mathematics for Computer Science

Lecture 5: Sums

Sums are useful for recurrences, counting, probability, runtimes of algorithms, performances of large systems, machine learning, and much more! This lecture looks at ways to approximate sums through perturbation, ansatz method, and the integral method.

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