Discrete Mathematics

Fall 2020

Instructor:

殷堂凱, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Office hours: Tuesday 9:00-12:00 A.M.
Office:
綜合大樓 200

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

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

 

TA Office Hours: (時間地點,開學後與助教約定)

Time:

Lectures: Thursday 2-4

Location:

Lectures: 第一綜合教室204

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

9/17

Fundamental principles of counting

 

2

9/24

Fundamentals of logic

 

3

10/1

Holiday. No class.

 

4

10/8

Fundamentals of logic

5

10/15

Fundamentals of logic

 Quiz 1

6

10/22

Properties of the integers: mathematical induction

 

7

10/29

Relations and functions

Quiz 2

8

11/5

Relations and functions

 

9

11/12

Midterm exam

 

10

11/19

Relations: the second time around

 

11

11/26

Relations: the second time around

 

12

12/3

Relations: the second time around

 

13

12/10

The principle of inclusion and exclusion

Quiz 3

14

12/17

The principle of inclusion and exclusion

 

15

12/24

Generating functions

 

16

12/31

Generating functions

Quiz 4

17

1/7

Generating functions

 

18

1/14

Final exam

 

Grade:

Textbook:

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