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The material presented in this book may be considered applied mathematics. However, the relevant mathematics is not the continuous variety, taught in the standard calculus courses. Hence the need for this chapter. Discrete mathematics often means very new mathematics, and includes the mathematics of finite structures, abstract algebra, the basic ideas of set theory, and the theory of relations and graphs. It is a prerequisite for automata theory and linguistics in much the same way that calculus is the prerequisite for numerical analysis and many branches of physics and engineering.
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Büchi, J.R., Siefkes, D. (1989). Concepts and Notations in Discrete Mathematics. In: Siefkes, D. (eds) Finite Automata, Their Algebras and Grammars. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8853-1_1
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