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MATH 240 -- DISCRETE MATHEMATICS -- FALL 2013

• Textbook:

Kenneth Rosen, Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, 7th edition.

(Available in math library reserve)

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• Prof:

Patrick Ahern (ahern@math)

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• TAs:

Serkan Sakar (serkan@math)

Baris Aydinlioglu (baris@math)

Chaman Verma (csverma@cs)

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• Office hours:

Serkan: TBD

Baris: TBD

Chaman: TBD

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SYLLABUS & READING

WEEK 1:

• Tue

Set, subset, empty set, power set, cardinality, cartesian product, some standard sets (real numbers, natural numbers, rational numbers, etc.)

(Rosen 2.1)

• Thu

Set operations: union & intersection, generalized union & intersection, bit-representation of sets, set identities.

(Rosen 2.2)

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HOMEWORKS

WEEK 1:

• Due Thursday of week 3in class.
  Late homework will not be accepted.
• Rosen 2.1 -- 3,11,16,18,21,23,25
• Rosen 2.2 -- 1,3,5,9,15,19,23,24