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It is generally preferable to use this email address instead of our
personal addresses because you are likely to get an answer to
your question faster if it is sent to all of us.
If you ask a question by email which requires a lengthy response,
we are likely to ask you to come in to discuss the answer in person.
Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the
impact of a disability should contact me privately to discuss his or her
specific needs. Also contact the Disability Services Center at
(949) 824-7494 as soon as possible to better ensure that such
accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.
Absolutely no late homework assignments will be accepted. .
The weekly quiz will be given every Friday at the beginning of lecture. The quiz will be handed out at 11:00 AM, sharp and will be picked up at 11:15 AM, sharp . There will be no make-up quizes given. When we tabulate your final grade, we will drop the two lowest quiz scores and the two lowest homework scores. However, in exchange for this, we will make absolutely no allowances if you arrive at a quiz late or turn in your homework late. This holds even if you have a perfectly valid reason to miss a homework assignment or a quiz. If for some reason you fail to make it to a quiz or hand in a homework assignment, that will count as one of your dropped quizes or homework assignments, no matter how legitimate your reason is.
If you believe that there has a been a mistake in grading a homework assignment, quiz or exam, you can request that a question be regraded. This request must be made within a week of the assignment being handed back. We also ask that when you request a regrade that you provide three things on a separate sheet of paper: (1) list of the problem(s) you want graded, (2) the reason(s) for the regrade, and (3) a signed statement that you have not altered your answers you are submitting for regrading.
I do encourage you to work with your fellow students on the homework assignments since I think a lot of learning takes place when you work together. However, when you sit down to write up your solutions, you should do that alone. This helps you make sure that you understand the solution for yourself.
There is one required text for the course:
| Lecture | Date | Lecture | Assignments | Sample Quizzes | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | F Sept. 22 | Lect. 1 | Logic; Propositional equivalence (1.1,1.2) | ||
| 2 | M Sept. 25 | Lect. 2 | HW1 | Sample quiz 1 | Predicates and Quantifiers; Nested Quantifiers (1.3,1.4) |
| 3 | W Sept. 27 | Lect. 3 | Sets; Sets operations (1.6,1.7) | ||
| 4 | F Sept. 29 | Lect. 4 | Functions (1.8) | ||
| 5 | M Oct. 2 | Lect. 5 | HW2 | Sample quiz 2 | Grouth of Functions; Complexity of Algorithms (2.2,2.3) |
| 6 | W Oct. 4 | Lect. 6 | The integers and Division (2.4) | ||
| 7 | F Oct. 6 | Lect. 7 | Integers and Algorithms (2.5) | ||
| 8 | M Oct. 9 | Lect. 8 | HW3 | Sample quiz 3 | Applications of Number Theory (2.6) |
| 9 | W Oct. 11 | Lect. 9 | Basics of Counting (4.1) | ||
| 10 | F Oct. 13 | Lect. 10 | Pigeonhole Principle (4.2) | ||
| 11 | M Oct. 16 | Lect. 11 | HW4 | Sample quiz 4 | Permutations and Combinations (4.3) |
| 12 | W Oct. 18 | Lect. 12 | Binomial Coefficients (4.4) | ||
| 13 | F Oct. 20 | Lect. 13 | Generalized Permutations and Combinations I (4.5) | ||
| 14 | M Oct. 23 | Lect. 14 | HW5 | Sample quiz 5 | Generalized Permutations and Combinations II (4.5) |
| 15 | W Oct. 25 | Lect. 15 | (answers) | Introduction to Discrete Probability Theory (5.1) | |
| 16 | F Oct. 27 | Lect. 16 | Probability Theory I (5.2) | ||
| 17 | M Oct. 30 | Lect. 17 | HW6 | Sample quiz 6 | Probability Theory II (5.2) |
| 18 | W Nov. 1 | Lect. 18 | (answers) | Expected Value and Variance (5.3) | |
| 19 | F Nov. 3 | Lect. 19 | Expected Value and Variance (5.3) | ||
| 20 | M Nov. 6 | Lect. 20 | HW7 | Sequences and Summations; Exponential and Logarithmic (3.2; A1) | |
| 21 | W Nov. 8 | Lect. 21 | Methods of Proof (1.5) | ||
| -- | F Nov. 10 | Veteran's day | |||
| 22 | M Nov. 13 | Lect. 22 | HW8 | Sample quiz 7 | Methods of Proof (1.5) |
| 23 | W Nov. 15 | Lect. 23 | (answers) | Mathematical Induction (3.3) | |
| 24 | F Nov. 17 | Lect. 24 | Recursive Definitions (3.4) | ||
| 25 | M Nov. 20 | Lect. 25 | HW9 | Reccurrence Relations (6.1) | |
| 26 | W Nov. 22 | Lect. 26 | Solving Reccurrence Reliations (6.2) | ||
| -- | F Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving | |||
| 27 | M Nov. 27 | Review for Final Exams | |||
| 28 | W Nov. 29 | Review for Final Exams | |||
| 29 | F Dec. 1 | Review for Final Exams |