Discrete Mathematics

Spring 2007

Instructor:

殷堂凱, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Office hours: Wednesday 1:00-4:00 P.M.
Office:
管院 623

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

Time:

Lectures: Tuesday 5-7

Location:

Lectures:第一綜合教室 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

2/27

Fundamental principles of counting

 

2

3/6

Fundamentals of logic, set theory

 

3

3/13

Properties of the integers: mathematical induction

Quiz 1 

4

3/20

Relations and functions 

 

5

3/27

Relations and functions

 

6

4/3

Relations: the second time around

Quiz 2

7

4/10

Relations: the second time around

 

8

4/17

Midterm exam 

 

9

4/24

The principle of inclusion and exclusion

 

10

5/1

The principle of inclusion and exclusion

 

11

5/8

Generating functions

 

12

5/15

Generating functions

Quiz 3

13

5/22

Recurrence relations 

 

14

5/29

Recurrence relations 

 

15

6/5

An introduction to graph theory 

Quiz 4

16

6/12

An introduction to graph theory

 

17

6/19

Holiday, no class 

 

18

6/26

Final exam

 

Grade:

Textbook:

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