NIT AP professor writes book on ‘Discrete Mathematics & Applications’

National Institute of Technology (NIT) Andhra Pradesh assistant professor Karthick Seshadri has authored a book on ‘Discrete Mathematics with Applications.’

It is a key prerequisite for emerging courses such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science among others.

The book was co-authored with K. Viswanathan Iyer, who was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Trichy.

This book can be used as a textbook for the Discrete Mathematics course which is typically offered as part of the B.Tech and MCA programmes. This book accompanies a digital learning app that provides access to material in the form of flashcards, practice problems and laboratory exercises.

Congratulating Seshadri for this accomplishment, NIT Andhra Pradesh director C.S.P Rao said, “It is important for faculty of higher learning institutes to publish textbooks to disseminate innovative pedagogical content and experiential learning to the stakeholders of technical education. I am happy to state that several textbooks are in the pipeline to be published by the faculty of NIT Andhra Pradesh.”

The book is organized into six chapters, one each on Logic; Functions & Relations; Combinatorics; Basic Group Theory; Graph Theory; Finite Automata (traditionally, this belongs to theory of computing); and Discrete Probability Theory. The concepts introduced in this book will help students in problem-solving and applying the concepts learnt to other areas of Computer Science.

Seshadri, who is an assistant professor at the department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Andhra Pradesh, said, “I thank my director for motivating and supporting me in the pursuit of my academic aspirations. The book is written in an easy-to-comprehend style used for demonstrating many mathematical constructs and contains examples to clarify many abstract concepts useful in the study of Computer Science. Many formal arguments are introduced in a student-friendly manner and numerous exercises are provided to assess the understanding of the content covered. I thank my co-author Dr. K. Viswanathan Iyer and wish to acknowledge the support of the editorial team in Cengage comprising Vineet Sharma, Rahul Kumar and Sanjay Singh.”