Winter 2010
· Instructor: Sergi Elizalde
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Lectures: MWF 12:30-1:35 in Kemeny 108
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X-hour: Tu 1:00-1:50
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Office Hours: MF 11:05-12:00, M 1:35-2:30
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Office:
Kemeny 332
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Email:
·
Phone:
646-8191
Schedule and
homework assignments
Announcements
The
final exam will be at 9 am on Friday, March 12, in Kemeny 108.
The
grader for the course is Will Chen.
Course
description
Math
28 is a course in combinatorial mathematics. Combinatorics is a branch of
mathematics that studies sets (usually finite) of objects that satisfy some
properties. In particular, it is concerned with "counting" the
objects in a set (enumerative combinatorics), with determining when an object
with a required list of properties exist, with constructing and analyzing
objects meeting certain properties (as in combinatorial designs and matroid
theory), with finding "largest", "smallest", or
"optimal" objects (extremal combinatorics and combinatorial
optimization), and with finding algebraic structures these objects may have
(algebraic combinatorics).
Textbook
Combinatorics Through Guided Discovery, November 2004 edition, by Ken Bogart,
available online here
and printed at the Copy Center.
Grading
The
course grade will be based on
·
homework
(25%)
·
midterm
exam (20%)
·
final
exam (35%)
·
class
participation (20%).
Homework
will be assigned daily, and due every Monday. All the homework assignments are
posted here. No
late homework will be accepted.
You are encouraged to
collaborate on the homework, but what you write has to be your own
understanding of how to do the problem. You must state what sources you have
consulted, with whom you have collaborated, and from whom you have received
help.
No
collaboration is permitted on exams.
Extra
material
Tips on writing proofs (2-page pdf).
If
you want to learn the LaTeX typesetting system for writing up homework (highly
recommended), here is a page of resources (courtesy of Rebecca Weber).
Students with disabilities: Students with disabilities enrolled
in this course that may need disability-related classroom accommodations are
encouraged to make an office appointment to see me before the end of the second
week of the term. All discussions will remain confidential, although the
Student Accessibility Services office may be consulted to discuss appropriate
implementation of any accommodation requested.