Preparatory Course: Mathematics and Computer Science for Modeling
The "Computer Science and Mathematics" preparatory course will combine a hands-on introduction to programming in python with a revision of elementary mathematical concepts. The topics include data types, data structures, control structures and data visualisation on the programming side and they will be applied to vector/matrix calculation, integration/differentiation of functions and differential equations.
The course is meant for students who are about to start the Cognitive Science Master Program at the Ruhr-University .
Lecturers
Dr. Daniel SabinaszLecturer |
Details
- Course type
- Lab courses
- Term
- Winter Term 2023/2024
Teaching Units
Unit 1: Introduction to Programming in Python
| Document | Jupyter notebook |
| Link | Python documentation |
| Link | Bonus exercises with varying difficulties |
| Document | Jupyter notebook with all exercise solutions |
| Lecture slides | Lecture slides |
Programming Session
| Lecture slides | Slides |
| Reference solution | Solution task 1 |
| Reference solution | Solution task 2 |
| Reference solution | Solution task 3 |
Unit 2: Functions in math
| Lecture slides | Functions in math |
| Reference solution | Exercise solutions |
Unit 3: Linear Algebra
| Document | Slides |
| Reference solution | Exercise 1 solution |
| Reference solution | Exercise 2 solution |
Unit 4: Calculus
| Lecture slides | Slides |
| Reference solution | Exercise solutions |
Unit 5: Integration
| Lecture slides | Slides |
Documents
| Document | Exam topics |
| Document | Practice exam |
The Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) is a research unit of the Faculties of Computer Science and Medicine at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Its scientific goal is to understand the fundamental principles through which organisms generate behavior and cognition while linked to their environments through sensory and effector systems. Inspired by our insights into such natural cognitive systems, we seek new solutions to problems of information processing in artificial cognitive systems. We draw from a variety of disciplines that include experimental psychology and neurophysiology as well as machine learning, neural artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics.
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