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 CSE 321: Discrete Structures, Autumn 2008
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SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Week Date Content Readings Assignments
#1 September 22 NO CLASS   Sleep
September 24 Administrivia / Propositional Logic 1.1  
September 26 Propositional Equivalences 1.2, Supplementary Logic Notes  
#2 September 29 Predicates and Quantifiers 1.3  
October 1 Nested Quantifiers 1.4 Assignment 1 out
October 3 Rules of Inference 1.5  
#3 October 6 Introduction to Proofs / Proof Methods and Strategy 1.6, 1.7  
October 8 Integers and Division 3.4 Assignment 1 due, Assignment 2 out
October 10 Modular Exponentiation / Primes 3.6, 3.5  
#4 October 13 Greatest Common Divisors / Euclid's Algorithm 3.5, 3.6  
October 15 Applications of Number Theory 3.7 Assignment 2 due, Assignment 3 out
October 17 Mathematical Induction 4.1  
#5 October 20 Strong Induction and Well-Ordering 4.2  
October 22 Recursive Definitions and Structural Induction 4.3 Assignment 3 due, Assignment 4 out
October 24 Sets / Set Operations 2.1, 2.2  
#6 October 27 Functions 2.3  
October 29 Counting / Pigeonhole Principle 5.1, 5.2 Assignment 4 due
October 31 Permutations and Combinations 5.3 Assignment 5 out
#7 November 3 Midterm review    
November 5 Midterm    
November 7 Binomial Coefficients, Combinations with Repetition 5.4, first five pages of 5.5  
#8 November 10 Discrete Probability / Probability Theory 6.1, 6.2  
November 12 Probability Theory / Bayes' Rule 6.2, 6.3
Bayes Formula slides
Assignment 5 due, Assignment 6 out
November 14 Bayes' Rule, Expected Value 6.3, 6.4  
#9 November 17 Linearity of Expectation, Relations 6.4, 8.1  
November 19 Representing Relations / Closure of Relations 8.3, 8.4 Assignment 6 due, Assignment 7 out
November 21 Equivalence Relations / Graphs and Terminology 8.5, 9.1 - 9.2  
#10 November 24 Special Types of Graphs / Graph Isomorphism 9.2 - 9.4 Assignment 8 out
November 26 CLASS CANCELLED    
November 27 HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS   Eat and sleep!
#11 December 1 Euler and Hamilton Paths 9.5 Assignment 7 due
December 3 Planar Graphs 9.7 Assignment 8 due
December 5 Final Review    


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