MAT 385: Discrete Math
Course Materials:
Syllabus
Schedule and assignments
(tentative)
Learning Objectives
Edited Section Summaries
Daily Agendas/Summaries
Chapters 1-3:
Day 1: Welcome -- let's go!
Day 2: Propositional Logic
Day 3: Quantifiers, Predicates, and Validity
Day 4: Predicate Logic
Day 5: Proof Techniques
Day 6: Induction
Day 7: Recursion
Day 8: Recursion and Recurrence relations
Day 9: Recurrence relations and Analysis of Algorithms
Day 10: Analysis of Algorithms
Day 11: Sets
Day 12: Review; Sets
Day 13: Exam 1
Chapter 4 and 6:
Day 14: Sets
Day 15: Graphs
Post Spring break... Regrouping....
Day 16: Graphs and Trees
Day 17: Trees
Day 18: Decision Trees
Chapters 8 and 9:
Day 19: Boolean Algebras
Day 20: Review
Day 21: Exam 2
Day 22: Logic Networks
Day 23: Boolean Minimization
Day 24: Finite-State Machines
Day 25: Finite-State Machines:
recognition and minimization
Day 26: A Karnaugh/Quine-McCluskey Example
(and start of review)
Day 27: A FSM Example
(and end of review)
Day 28: Final Exam
Links:
How Google uses linear algebra to rate web pages
Notes:
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