Lecture 5: Sums

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MIT 6.1200J Mathematics for Computer Science, Spring 2024 Instructor: Brynmor Chapman View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-1200j-mathematics-for-computer-science-spring-2024/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61VNvICqk2HXJTonnKgAc9d Sums are useful for recurrences, counting, probability, runtimes of algorithms, performances of large systems, machine learning, and much more! This lecture looks at ways to approximate sums through perturbation, ansatz method, and the integral method. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments.

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