MAT 385: Discrete Math
Course Materials:
Syllabus
Schedule and assignments
(tentative)
Learning Objectives
Your projects
Office hours
(all office hours are
by Zoom
): MW 11:00-12:00; MW 4:00-5:00; TR 2:00-3:00.
If you need to Zoom to class,
here's the link
.
Edited Highlights
Daily Agendas/Summaries
Chapters 1-2:
Day 1: Welcome -- let's go!
Day 2: 1.1: Statements, Symbolic Representations, and Tautologies
Day 3: 1.2: Propositional Logic
Day 4: 1.3: Quantifiers, Predicates, and Validity
Day 5: 1.4: Predicate Logic
Day 6: 2.1: Proof Techniques
Day 7: 2.2: Induction
Day 8: 2.2: Induction; Review
Day 9: Exam 1
Chapter 3 and 4:
Day 10: Recursion
Day 11: Recurrence Relations
Day 12: Analysis of Algorithms
Day 13: The Euclidean Algorithm
Day 14: Sets
Chapters 6 and 7:
Day 15: Graphs and their representations
Day 16: Graphs, continued
Day 17: Trees and their representations
Day 18: Decision Trees
Day 19: Euler Paths and Hamiltonian Circuits
Day 20: Exam 2 review
Day 21: Exam 2
Day 22: Shortest Paths
Day 23: Shortest Paths and Graph Traversal
Chapter8:
Day 24: Boolean Algebras
Day 25: Logic Networks
Day 26: Minimization
Chapter9:
Day 27: Finite State Machines
Day 28: More FSMs: Recognition
Day 29: Review
Links:
How Google uses linear algebra to rate web pages
Notes:
Feel free to
email me
with your questions.
The
Departmental Syllabus
Taking tests in my classes
Suggestions for the NKU Math/CS student
Free tutoring for NKU students is available from
the math center at Learning PLUS
.
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Andy Long
. Comments appreciated.