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 CSE 321: Discrete Structures, Winter 2007
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SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

* Readings in brackets are for the 5th edition
Week Date Content Readings* Assignments
#1 January 1 HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS   Sleep
January 3 Administrivia / Propositional Logic 1.1 Assignment 1 out
January 4 Propositional Equivalences 1.2, Supplementary Logic Notes  
January 5 Predicates and Quantifiers / Nested Quantifiers 1.3, 1.4  
#2 January 8 Rules of Inference 1.5  
January 10 Introduction to Proofs 1.6 [1.5]  
January 12 Proof Methods and Strategy / Integers and Division 1.7, 3.4
[3.1, 2.4]
Assignment 1 due, Assignment 2 out (scan)
#3 January 15 HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS   Perform community service
January 17 Modular Exponentiation / Primes 3.6, 3.5
[2.5, 2.4]
 
January 19 Greatest Common Divisors / Euclid's Algorithm 3.5, 3.6
[2.4, 2.5]
 
#4 January 22 Applications of Number Theory 3.7 [2.6] Assignment 2 due, Assignment 3 out
January 24 Mathematical Induction 4.1 [3.3]  
January 26 Strong Induction and Well-Ordering 4.2 [3.3]  
#5 January 29 Recursive Definitions and Structural Induction 4.3 [3.4] Assignment 3 due, Assignment 4 out (#4, #6)
January 31 Sets / Set Operations 2.1, 2.2
[1.6, 1.7]
 
February 2 Functions 2.3 [1.8]  
#6 February 5 Counting / Pigeonhole Principle 5.1, 5.2
[4.1, 4.2]
Assignment 4 due
February 7 Permutations and Combinations 5.3 [4.3]  
February 9 Midterm   Assignment 5 out
#7 February 12 Binomial Coefficients, Combinations with Repetition 5.4 [4.4],
first five pages of 5.5 [4.5]
 
February 14 Discrete Probability / Probability Theory 6.1, 6.2
[5.1, 5.2]
 
February 16 Probability Theory / Bayes' Rule 6.2 [5.2],
6.3 [*],
Bayes Formula slides
Assignment 5 due, Assignment 6 out
#8 February 19 HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS   Sleep
February 21 Bayes' Rule, Expected Value 6.3 [*],
6.4 [5.3]
 
February 23 Linearity of Expectation, Relations 6.4 [5.3],
8.1 [7.1]
Assignment 6 due, Assignment 7 out
#9 February 26 Representing Relations / Closure of Relations 8.3, 8.4
[7.3, 7.4]
 
February 28 Transitive Closure / Equivalence Relations 8.4, 8.5
[7.4, 7.5]
 
March 2 Graphs and Graphs Models / Graph Terminology and Special Types of Graphs / Graph Isomorphism 9.1 - 9.4
[8.1 - 8.4]
Assignment 7 due, Assignment 8 out
#10 March 5 Euler and Hamilton Paths 9.5, [8.5]  
March 7 Planar Graphs / Graph Coloring 9.7, 9.8
[8.7, 8.8]
Assignment 8 due
March 9 Final Review    


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