MATH.3600 Mathematic Structure for Computer Engineers
Section 202 - Prof. Levasseur
Spring 2017, SIS number 13644
Class Meetings: TR 12:30- 1:45
Room: Olney 517
Textbook
Applied Discrete Structures - You can use the free html or pdf; or your can purchase a hard copy.
Software
We will occasionally be using Mathematica in this course. Students can now download a copy of Mathematica for their personal computers at no cost. Click here for details
We will also use Sage for some of the course. Sage (sagemath.org) is a free open source software system for mathematics. Sage can be used either on your own computer, a local server, on SageMathCloud (https://cloud.sagemath.com), or in a sage cell.
Video Lectures
Lecture on Linear Recurrences
Grading, Exams and Quizzes
Grading
Grades will be based on the following factors:
- Two 75 minute exams: each 20% of your grade. Dates: February 16 and March 30.
- Quizzes: 25% of your grade
- Homework Assignments: 10% of your grade
- Final Exam: 25% of your grade on Wednesday, May 3,2017, 11:30AM - 2:30PM. Location:TBA
There will be two parts of the final exam in which you will be able to increase your grade in the previous exams.
Exams
For the hour exams, you will be responsible for everything that is covered up to and including two classes before the exam. The Final exam will be comprehensive. You are expected to take exams on the scheduled dates, unless you are hospitalized. If we have a snow day on a scheduled exam date, the exam will be on the following class date. The final exam will be some time between May 1 and May 9. You are expected to leave these dates open until we get a definite date/time for the final exam. Do not schedule travel before May 10. If you already have travel scheduled and do not want to cancel it, you probably should drop this course.
Quizzes
Starting on January 26, there will be a 5-10 minute quiz at the end of almost every class - The exceptions will be the class before an exam and the last class of the semester. The quizzes will potentially be on anything before that day's class material. The lowest three quiz grades will be dropped. If you miss a class, you will get a zero, which will be one of the dropped grades.
Problem Sets
There will be a few homework assignments throughout the semester.
Course Content
- Sets
- Combinatorics
- Logic
- Relations
- Functions
- Recursion
- Graphs
- Trees
- Boolean Algebras
A Sage cell: