MATH 6: Finite Mathematics
Last updated August 1, 2007

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Lectures Sections in Text Brief Description
6/22 1.1, 1.4 Sets and numbers
6/25 1.5 Venn diagrams and their applications
6/27 2.1 Start of combinatorics: inclusion/exclusion and multiplication principle
6/29 2.2 Arrangements
7/2 2.3 Selections
7/4   Independence day: no class. (Also no office hours.)
7/6 2.4 Selections, ctd. The binomial theorem.
7/9 3.1-3.2 Start of probability: events and probability measures.
7/11 3.3 Nonuniform probability distributions. Bernoulli trials.
7/13 3.4 Combinatorics and probability: from marbles to birthdays.
7/16   Quiz number 1
7/18 4.2-4.3 Start of graph theory.
7/20 4.4 Euler circuits (guest lecture)
7/23 4.7 Other topics in graph theory: planarity and the four-color theorem
7/25 4.6 Hamiltonian cycles
7/27 4.1 More on sets and functions: functions, injectivity and surjectivity, simple counting
7/30 Permutations: composing and decomposing
8/1 Dummit & Foote More on permutations (worksheet)
8/3   More on permutations (worksheet, ctd.)
8/6 TBA Quiz #2
8/8 TBA Introducing number theory
8/10 TBA Divisibility, primes, and the puzzle of unique factorization
8/13 TBA Euclidean algorithm
8/15 TBA Modular arithmetic and new number systems
8/17 5.3 Start of systems of equations: examples and the idea of row-reduction
8/20 5.3 ctd. More on solving systems of equations
8/22   Wrap up!
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