Math 327, Discrete Mathematics, Spring 2007
Week One, January 15 - 19, 2007
Week Two, January 22 - 26, 2007
- Homework 1, due January 29
- Monday: intersection, union, symmetric difference, power set, ordered pairs. §2.2
- Wednesday: Relations (binary), equivalence relations §2.3, §2.4
Week Three, January 29 - February 2, 2007
- Homework 2, due February 7
- Monday: Equivalence class. § 2.4 (cont.)
- Wednesday: Partial orders and Hasse Diagrams § 2.5
Week Four, February 5 - 9, 2007
- Monday: Functions, one-to-one, onto, inverse. § 3.1
- Wednesday: Composition, inverse, cardinality. § 3.2, 3.3
- Homework 3, due February 14
Week Five, February 12 - 16, 2007
- Monday: The division algorithm § 4.1.
- Wednesday: Snow Day.
- Some review problems I fixed a type in problem 4.
Week Six, February 19 - 23, 2007
- Monday: Review
- Wednesday: Midterm I
- End of sixth week is last day to drop a course without a grade
Week Seven, February 26 - March 2, 2007
Week Eight, March 5 - 9, 2007
- Monday: § 4.4
- Wednesday: § 4.5
- Homework 5, due March 21
Spring Recess, March 11-18
Week Nine, March 19 - 23, 2007
Monday: Induction § 5.1
Wednesday: Recursively Defined Sequences § 5.2
Homework 6, due March 28
Week Ten, March 26- 30, 2007
- Monday: Homogeneous Linear Recurrence Relations § 5.3
- Wednesday:Nonhomogeneous Linear Recurrence Relations § 5.3
- Homework 7, due April 4
- We are skipping § 5.4
Week Eleven, April 2 - 6, 2007
- Monday: Combinatorics using reccurence relations: Problem 22 on page 175.
Inclusion/Exclusion, §6.1.
- Wednesday: Multiply for independent choices. §6.2. The pigeonhole principal. §6.3.
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Week Twelve, April 9 - 13, 2007
Week Thirteen, April 16 - 20, 2007
- Monday: Review. The midterm will cover §4.1-4, just the chinese remainder
theorem from §4.5, §5.1-3, §6.1-3. It will not formally cover
§7.1-2, but you may find those sections useful in doing problems like
a card problem such as 6.2.16.
- Wednesday: Midterm II
Week Fourteen, April 23 - 27, 2007
Week Fifteen, April 30 - May 4, 2007
Finals Week, May 7-11, 2007