MATH/CS-227 Outline:

 

Topic

Wks

Sub-Topics

Functions, relations & sets

2

Sets (Venn diagrams, complements, unions, intersections, Cartesian products)

DeMorgan’s laws

Relations (reflexivity, symmetry, transitivity, equivalence relations)

Functions (surjections, injections, inverses, composition)

Logic (Part I)

3

Truth tables

Conjunction, disjunction, negation, implication (hypotheses, conclusions, converses, contrapositives)

DeMorgan’s laws again

Natural Deduction (Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, etc.)

Universal and existential quantification

Validity – implication

Matrices

1

Addition

Multiplication

Inverses

Elementary Number Theory

2

Divisibility

Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

Gcd’s, lcm’s, number of divisors

Modular arithmetic

Bases (in particular, binary and hex)

Proof Techniques

2

Methods of proof: direct, indirect, contradiction

Counterexamples

The Principle of Mathematical Induction

Basics of Counting

2

Pigeonhole principle

Permutations & combinations

Basic probability