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 |