Mathematics for Computer Science

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  • The course is over!

  • Final exam statistics are available from the QuizStats link on the left.
  • Solutions to the problems are available to instructors on request.
  • All the class handouts have been combined in a single document (pdf, 3.5M, 497pp) for your convenience, as have all the lecture slides (pdf, 9M, 200pp).
    A 595pp handouts version that includes solutions is available to instructors on request.

Calendar

February

5 reg day 6 7 1st day of classes:
ln1: good & bad proofs

slides, class probs & solns

8 9 ln1: propositions & proofs

TP1.1 online registration due 6pm
pset 1 out, due Tue., Feb. 20

slides, class probs & solns

12 ln2: proofs by cases & contradiction

TP1.2, diagnostic questionnaire due 6pm

slides, class probs & solns

13 14 ln2: predicate logic

Email reading comments & TP2 due 11am

slides, class probs & solns

15 16 ln2: sets & functions

pset 2 out, due Mon., Feb. 26

slides, class probs & solns

19 President's day 20 ln3: partial orders

pset 1 due (submit in class), pset 1 soln

slides class probs & solns

21 ln3: induction

Email reading comments & TP3 due 11am

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

22 23 ln3: induction II
strong, well-ordering

pset 3 out, due Mon., Mar. 5

slides, class probs & solns

26 ln4: structural induction

pset 2 due & solns

slides, class probs & solns

27 28 ln4: state machines:
invariants

Email reading comments & TP4 due 11am

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

Mar. 1 Mar. 2 ln4: state machines:
derived variables
termination

pset 4 out, due Mon., Mar. 12

slides, class probs & solns

March

5 ln5: stable marriage

pset 3 due & solns

slides, class probs & solns

6 7 ln5: simple graphs:
degrees, isomorphism

Email reading comments & TP5 due 11am

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

8 9 ln5: connectedness

pset 5 out, due Mon., Mar. 19

slides class probs & solns

12 ln6: graph coloring

pset 4 due & solns

slides, class probs, & solns

13 14 ln6: bipartite matching

Email reading comments & TP6 due 11am

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs, & solns

15 16 ln6: digraphs, routing

pset 6 out, due Mon., Apr. 2

slides, class probs, & solns

19 ln6.5: planar graphs

pset 5 due & solns

slides, class probs & solns

20 21 ln7: number theory
gcd & linear combinations

Email reading comments & TP7 due 11am

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

22 23 5-coloring of planar graphs;
Benes network (cont'd)

slides, class probs & solns

26 Spring break 27 Spring break 28 Spring break 29 Spring break 30 Spring break

April

2 ln7: number theory
arithmetic mod p

pset 7 out, due April 11

slides class probs & solns

3 4 ln7: number theory
arithmetic mod n,
RSA encryption

pset 6 due & solns

slides class probs & solns

5 6 ln8: arithmetic & geometric sums

Email reading comments & TP8 due 11am

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

9 ln8: harmonic series,
integral method

slides, class probs & solns

10 11 ln8: asymptotics

pset 7 due & solns
pset 8 out, due April 18

slides, class probs & solns

12 13 ln9: counting rules

Email reading comments & TP9 due 11am

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

16 Patriots Day 17 18 ln9: more counting rules

pset 8 due & solns
pset 9 out, due April 25

slides, class probs & solns

19 20 ln10: permutations
combinations

Email reading comments & TP10 due 11am

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

23 ln10: combinatorial identities

slides, class probs & solns

24 25 ln11: generating functions:
for counting

pset 9 due & solns
pset 10 out, due May 2

class probs & solns, videocam notes (no slides)

26 27 ln11: generating functions:
for recurrences

Email reading comments & TP11 due 11am

miniquiz on last week & Monday problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

May

Apr 30 ln12 intro to probability

slides, class probs & solns

1 2 ln12: conditional prob
independence

Email reading comments & TP12 due 11am,
pset 10 due & solns

slides, class probs & solns

3 4 ln13: random variables

miniquiz on last week problems & solns

slides, class probs & solns

7 ln13: distribution & density, binomial distribution

pset 11 out, due May 11

slides, class probs & solns

8 9 ln13: sampling & confidence;
expectation

Email reading comments & TP13 due 11am

slides, class probs & solns

10 11 ln14: linearity of expectation,
expectation of products

pset 11 due & solns

miniquiz on last week & Monday problems & solns

videocam notes (no slides), class probs & solns

14 ln14: variance,
Chebyshev's theorem

Optional TP14

slides, class probs & solns

15 16 Sampling, Law of Large Numbers

slides, class probs & solns

17 18
21 FINAL EXAM
1:30--4:30pm, Johnson

final & solns

Latex macros

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