Preface

These notes are intended for the pre-semester mathematics brush-up course for students entering the master's degree program in Data Science at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA).

Since students may enter the program with different mathematical backgrounds, the material spans a fairly broad range. It revisits upper-secondary mathematics, including topics normally associated with Maths C, Maths B, and Maths A levels in Danish gymnasiums, while also offering a glimpse of the mathematical language used in university-level data science courses: its vocabulary, notation, and basic methods.

In this way, the notes aim to bridge the potential gap between gymnasium-level mathematics and the mathematics students will meet in university-level data science courses, while refreshing prior knowledge and making the mathematical language less unfamiliar.

Lastly, an aim has also been to create a compact reference document that students can return to later in the Data Science program.