Discrete Mathematics

Fall 2012

Instructor:

殷堂凱, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Office hours: Thursday 9:00-12:00 A.M. (before the midterm exam), Monday 1:00-4:00 P.M. (after the midterm exam)
Office:
管院 623

Phone: 07-5919515
Email: tkyin@nuk.edu.tw

http://www.csie.nuk.edu.tw/~tkyin/

 

TA Office Hours: Friday 10:00-11:00 A.M., 法學院 410-1實驗室

Time:

Lectures: Tuesday 2-4

Location:

Lectures: 管理學院 M01-205

Objectives:

Introduce the topics and techniques of discrete methods and combinatorial reasoning

Lecture content:

1. Fundamentals of discrete mathematics

2. Topics in enumeration

Lecture syllabus:    

 Lecture 

Date

Subject

Note

1

9/18

Fundamental principles of counting

 

2

9/25

Fundamental principles of counting

 

3

10/2

Fundamentals of logic

 

4

10/9

Fundamentals of logic

Quiz 1

5

10/16

Properties of the integers: mathematical induction

 

6

10/23

Relations and functions

 

7

10/30

Relations and functions

Quiz 2

8

11/6

Relations and functions

 

9

11/13

Midterm exam

 

10

11/20

Relations: the second time around

 

11

11/27

Relations: the second time around

 

12

12/4

Relations: the second time around

 

13

12/11

The principle of inclusion and exclusion

Quiz 3

14

12/18

The principle of inclusion and exclusion

 

15

12/25

Generating functions

 

16

1/1

Vacation, no class.

17

1/8

Generating functions

 Quiz 4

18

1/15

Final exam

 

Grade:

Textbook:

Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction, Fifth Edition, by Ralph P. Grimaldi, Pearson, 2004. 新月代理