Math 6
Introduction to Finite Mathematics
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Week of June 23 - 27, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 1.1
  • Do: Exercises 1.1B, #1, 2.
Wednesday:
  • Study: Section 1.1
  • Do: Exercises 1.1B, #3, 4, 5 and the following:
    Determine if the following sets have additive or multiplicative closure: {}, {0}, {0, 1}.
Friday:
  • Study: Section 1.3
  • Do: Exercises 1.3B
    #1:(i), (iii), (iv), (v)
    #4,
    #5:(i), (ii), (iii), (iv),
    and the following: Click here.
Week of June 30 - July 3, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 1.3
  • Do: Exercises 1.3B
    #1: (ii), (vi), (vii), (viii)
    #2 (Hint for vii: compare with part v.)
    #5: (v), (vi)
Wednesday:
  • Study: Sections 1.4 and 1.5
  • Do: Exercises 1.4B: 3, 4, 5, 9 and 1.5B: 6, 8, 9.
Week of July 7 - 11, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 2.1
  • Do: Exercises 1.4B: 10 (i), (iv), 11 (i), 12
    1.5B: 5, 10
    2.1B: 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15, 16
Wednesday:
  • Study: Sections 2.2 and 2.3
  • Do: Exercises 2.2B: 1 (i), (iii), (v), 3, 4, 6, 7
    2.3B: 1, 2 (i), (iii), (v), 3, 4, 6
Friday:
  • Study:--
  • Do:--
Week of July 21 - 25, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: --
  • Do: Prove using induction the familiar sum of squares identity.
Wednesday:
  • Study: Section 3.5
  • Do: Exercises 3.5B: 1, 3, 7, 8.
Friday:
  • Study: Section 3.6 and 3.7
  • Do: Exercises 3.6B: 1 (i), (ii), (iii), 2, 3, 4, 6, 8
    Exercises 3.7B: 1
Week of July 28 - August 1, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 3.8
  • Do: Exercises 3.7B: 2, 5
    Exercises 3.8B: 2
    Marilyn vos Savant has an entry on Wikipedia! Under the heading "Famous Problems" is the Monty Hall problem that we covered in class. Another is called the "Two Boys problem," about a pair of beagle puppies. Explain the solution to this problem using what you know about probability.
Wednesday:
  • Study: Section 4.2
  • Do: The assignment can be found here.
Friday:
  • Study: --
  • Do: --
Week of August 4, 2008 - August 8, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 4.3
  • Do: The assignment can be found here.
Wednesday:
  • Study: Section 4.4
  • Do: 4.3B: 1, 4, 6, 7, 10;
    4.4B: 1 (i),(ii), (iii), (iv), 2 (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), 4.
Friday:
  • Study: Section 4.5
  • Do: The assignment can be found here.
Week of August 11, 2008 - August 15, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 4.7
  • Do: Exercises 4.7B: 1, 4 (the notation can be found in the reading.), 6, 8 (i), (ii), (iii).
    Find the chromatic numbers of the even and odd cycles, C_n.
Wednesday:
  • Study: Sections 5.1 and 5.2
  • Do: Exercises 5.1B: 4, 5, 6, 7(i)
    Exercises 5.2B: 1(i), 3(i)
Friday:
  • Study: Sections 5.3 and 5.4
  • Do: Exercises 5.3B: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
    Exercises 5.4B: 3, 4, 6.
Week of August 11, 2008 - August 15, 2008
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Sections 5.5 and 5.6
  • Do: Exercises 5.5B: 2 (for (ix), the multiplication is done pairwise. For example you can try CF first, then the new matrix, if it exists, can be multiplied to E.), 3, 4, 6(i).
    5.6B: 1, 3(iii).
Wednesday:
  • Study: --
  • Do: --


Mits Kobayashi