Discrete Mathematics

Fall 2007 (CS)

Instructor:

殷堂凱, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Office hours: Thursday 1:00-2:30 P.M.
Office:
管院 623

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

TA Office Hours: Friday 1:00-3:00 P.M., 法學院 410-1實驗室

Time:

Lectures: Tuesday 2-4

Location:

Lectures: 法學院 106

Objectives:

Introduce the topics and techniques of discrete methods and combinatorial reasoning

Lecture content:

1. Fundamentals of discrete mathematics

2. Topics in enumeration

3. Graph theory and applications

Lecture syllabus:    

 Lecture 

Date

Subject

Note

1

9/18

Fundamental principles of counting

 

2

9/25

Holiday, no class

 

3

10/2

Fundamentals of logic

 

4

10/9

Properties of the integers: mathematical induction

Quiz 1

5

10/16

Relations and functions 

 

6

10/23

Relations and functions

 

7

10/30

Relations: the second time around

Quiz 2

8

11/6

Relations: the second time around

 

9

11/13

Midterm exam

 

10

11/20

The principle of inclusion and exclusion

 

11

11/27

Generating functions

 

12

12/4

Generating functions

Quiz 3

13

12/11

Recurrence relations 

 

14

12/18

Recurrence relations 

 

15

12/25

An introduction to graph theory 

Quiz 4

16

1/1

Holiday, no class

 

17

1/8

An introduction to graph theory 

 

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