Basavaraj S Anami is Principal, KLE Institute of Technology, Hubballi. Earlier, he was Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, Basaveshwar Engineering College Bagalkot. He has been teaching computer science at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels for the past 33 years and has 13 years of research experience. His research interests include image processing, natural language processing and knowledge based systems development.

Venkanna S Madalli is Professor, Department of MCA, KLE Institute of Technology, Hubballi. He is also a visiting faculty at PC Jabin Science College, Hubballi, where he teaches physics to M. Sc. students and at Karnatak University, where he handles courses in MCA and M.Sc. (Mathematics). He has 22 years of teaching experience and is keenly interested in the fields of fluid mechanics, numerical techniques and applied mathematics.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Overview of Disciplines in Mathematics


2. Fundamentals of Mathematical Logic


3. Mathematical Induction


4. Introduction to Set Theory


5. Relations and Operations


6. General Functions and Growth Functions


7. Algebraic Structures


8. Coding Theory


9. Fundamentals of Counting Principles


10. Introduction to Probability


11. Finite State Machine


12. Introduction to Recurrence Relations


13. Introduction to Graph Theory