Course Schedule, Discrete Structures, Fall 2005

(This schedule is tentative and may change slightly as the course progresses.)
Day Date Topic(s) Section of Book (Homework Problems)
Mon Sep 5 NO CLASS - LABOR DAY
Wed Sep 7 Introduction
Sets and Subsets
Operations on Sets

1.1 (HW: # 1-17 odd)
1.2 (HW: # 1-19 odd)
THU Sep 8 LAST DAY TO DROP A CLASS
WITHOUT RECEIVING A "W"
FRI Sep 9 LAST DAY TO ADD A CLASS
Mon Sep 12 Sequences
Division in the Integers
1.3 (HW: # 1-21 odd, 39)
1.4 (HW: # 1-21 odd, 39, 41)
Wed Sep 14 The Euclidean Algorithm
Matrices
Quiz 1
1.4
1.5 (HW: # 1-13 odd, 31, 33)
1.1 - 1.4
Mon Sep 19 Matrices
Mathematical Structures
1.5
1.6 (HW: # 1-23 odd)
Wed Sep 21 Mathematical Induction
Quiz 2
2.4 (HW: # 1-13 odd, 17, 21, 23, 27)
1.5, 1.6
Mon Sep 26 Permutations
Combinations
3.1 (HW: # 1-15 odd)
3.2 (HW: # 1-15 odd)
Wed Sep 28 Elements of Probabability
Recurrence Relations
Quiz 3
3.4 (HW: # 1-15 odd, 31-35 odd)
3.5 (HW: # 1-17 odd)
2.4, 3.1, 3.2
Mon Oct 3 Product Sets and Partitions
Relations and Digraphs
4.1 (HW: # 1-17 odd)
4.2 (HW: # 1-25 odd)
Wed Oct 5 Paths in Relations and Digraphs
Properties of Relations
4.3 (HW: # 1-19 odd, 27)
4.4 (HW: # 1-25 odd)
Mon Oct 10 Equivalence Relations
Computer Representations of Relations and Digraphs
Quiz 4
4.5 (HW: # 1-13 odd)
4.6 (HW: # 5-9 odd)
3.4, 3.5, 4.1 - 4.4
Wed Oct 12 Operations on Relations
Transitive Closure and Warshall's Algorithm
Review for Exam 1
4.7 (HW: # 1-23 odd)
4.8 (HW: # 1-15 odd)
-
MON Oct 17 EXAM 1 On the material
covered to date
Wed Oct 19 Functions 5.1 (HW: # 1-17 odd)
Mon Oct 24 Functions for Computer Science
Growth of Functions
Quiz 5
5.2 (HW: # 1-11 odd)
5.3 (HW: # 1-21 odd)
4.5 - 4.8, 5.1
Wed Oct 26 Partially Ordered Sets 6.1 (HW: # 1-17 odd)
Mon Oct 31 Extremal Elements of Partially Ordered Sets
Quiz 6
6.2 (HW: # 1-17 odd, 21-33 odd)
5.2, 5.3, 6.1
Wed Nov 2 Lattices 6.3 (HW: # 1-7 odd, 17)
THU Nov 3 LAST DAY TO DROP A CLASS
AND RECEIVE A "W"
Mon Nov 7 Finite Boolean Algebras
Quiz 7
6.4 (HW: # 1-11 odd, 23-31 odd)
6.2, 6.3
Wed Nov 9 Functions on Boolean Algebras
Circuit Designs
6.5 (HW: # 1-9 odd)
6.6 (HW: # 1-23 odd)
Mon Nov 14 Trees
Quiz 8
7.1 (HW: # 1-21 odd)
6.4 - 6.6
Wed Nov 16 Labeled Trees
Review for Exam 2
7.2 (HW: # 1-19 odd)
-
MON Nov 21 EXAM 2 On the material
covered since Exam 1
TUE Nov 22 Tree Searching 7.3 (HW: # 1-19 odd)
Wed Nov 23 NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Mon Nov 28 Languages
Quiz 9
10.1 (HW: # 1-25 odd)
7.1 - 7.3
Wed Nov 30 Representation of Special Grammars
Regular Expressions
10.2 (HW: 1-19 odd)
1.3 (HW: 31,33,35)
Mon Dec 5 Finite-State Machines
Monoids, Machines and Languages
Quiz 10
10.3 (HW 1-15 odd)
10.4 (HW: 1-19 odd)
1.3, 10.1, 10.2
Wed Dec 7 Machines and Regular Languages 10.5 (HW: 1-23 odd)
Mon Dec 12 Review for the Final Exam
Quiz 11
-
10.3 - 10.5
WED Dec 21 FINAL EXAM, 8:30-11:30am The final is
comprehensive, but
will emphasize the
material since Exam 2


John Loftin 2005-08-18