Discrete Structures Spring 2008

92.322

Schedule

Guide for the Final

You may use your notes, the handout, and the photographs of the board during the final. You may not use books, laptops, and PDAs.

Office Hours for the week of May 18th:

Monday, 6:15 - 8 PM

Tuesday, 6:15 - 8 PM

If enough people show up I will do a review on Monday in the Mathematics department tutoring / study  room.

If not, I will answer concrete questions that you might have.

Here is Midterm III (take-home version)

Midterm III  is on May 7 (not 5)

Extra office hours: Saturday, 2 May 2008, 4:30 -- 6:30 PM, Olney 428

No Office Hours Today, May 2nd.

 

If a problem in ``Assigned and collected on this date" 

column is underlined,  click on it to see a solution.

 

All problems are due in one week unless stated otherwise.

 

 

 

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Class attendance for the remainder of the course is required

Practice for the first midterm to be held on March 5-th.

Solutions to the practice set (see today's photos for the first two problems)

Practice for the second midterm to be held on April 18

Solutions to the practice set

Practice set with answers  for the third midterm to be held on May 5th

 

Class Number

Topics / Reading

Assigned and collected on this date

1

Refresher: Sets, lists. Permutations. Factorials. Stirling formula.

given in class

2

Number of  k-element subsets of an n-element set. Cube of dimension n. Board Photos.

 draw 4-dimensional cube

3

Binomial coefficients.  Pascal's Triangle. Growth of binomial coefficients. Simplex of dimension n. Board Photos.

 

4

n-simplex and n-cube. Distributing identical gifts to distinguishable children. Fair distributions (each child gets at least   one gift) – method of separators.

What is the number of faces of n-cube (extra credit) ?

 

 

5

 

General distributions – method of borrowing and returning. General formulation of combinatorial problems in terms of counting the number of ways n balls can be put into k boxes. ``12-fold way" of Rota:

balls can be identical or not – 2 cases; balls can be identical or not – 2 cases; each box may be required to hold at least one ball, at most one ball, or nor restrictions at all – 3 cases. Total is 12 cases.

Interpreting the gift distribution problem in terms of boxes and balls.

Counting the number of monomials of degree d that can be constructed from n variables.

4-cube is collected

 

6

 

Counting the number of monomials of degree at most d that can be constructed from n variables. Formulation of Inclusion-Exclusion Principle. Notion of disjoint union. Notion of additive measure.

assigned

1.8.26, 1.8.27, 1.8.33

 

7

 

Example (2.5.5) of application of Inclusion-Exclusion Principle. Proof of I-E Principle based on the idea of canonical partition induced by the covering of the union by individual sets. Board Photos

assigned 2.6.6

 

8

 

Applications of Inclusion-Exclusion.

The pigeonhole (box) principle. Board Photos

 

9

Euclidean Algorithm. Use of I-E principle to

calculate Euler's function f(n). Board Photos

 

10

Practicing Euclidean Algorithm. Using Euclidean Algorithm to compute the multiplicative inverse of a number in modular arithmetic. Board Photos

 

11

Modular Arithmetic. Multiplicative Inverses. Board Photos

 

12

Multiplicative Inverses. Euclidean Algorithm. Group of Units. Generating Zm additively and Zm -0 multiplicatively. Board Photos

 

13

Groups of Units. Generating Zm additively and Zm -0 multiplicatively. Fermat's Little Theorem. Euler's Theorem. Complex number interpretation of Modular Arithmetic. Board Photos

prove that any number b that is NOT comprime with m does NOT generate Zm additively.

14

Board Photos

 

15

Board Photos

 

16

Board Photos (contains solutions to the first two problems of the practice set)

 

17

Board Photos

 

18

Board Photos

 

19

Board Photos

 

20

Board Photos

 

21

Board Photos

 

14 March

Board Photos

 

31 March

Board Photos

 

2 April

Board Photos

 

4 April

Board Photos

 

7 April

Board Photos

see the photos for the homework; due in a week.

9 April

Board Photos

 

11 April

Board Photos

 

14 April

Board Photos

 

16 April

Board Photos

 

23 April

Board Photos

 

28 April

Board Photos

 

30 April

Board Photos

 

1-5 May

Board Photos: two lectures and the May 1st  tutorial on graph representations given during Thursday office hours.

 

9 May

Board Photos

 

12 May

Board Photos

 

 


 
 

 

 

 

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