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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

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 central research unit of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. We aim to understand the fundamental principles through which organisms generate behavior and cognition while linked to their environments through sensory systems and while acting in those environments through 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 approaches from psychology and neurophysiology as well as theoretical approaches from physics, mathematics, electrical engineering and applied computer science, in particular machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision.

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