Instructors: Ben Adenbaum

Course on canvas.dartmouth.edu.

Syllabus

Day Topic Section Suggested Problems
January 3 W Basic Counting (Sum and Product Principle) 1.1, 1.2

1.1.13, 1.1.15, 1.1.16, 1.1.17, 1.1.19, 1.2.10, 1.2.18

January 5 F Functions and Bijections 1.3 1.3.8, 1.3.10, 1.3.12, 1.3.13
January 8 M Relations 1.4 1.4.8-1.4.14
January 9 Tu (x-hour) Induction Review (Optional, but strongly recommended if unfamiliar) 3.2
January 10 W (HW 1 Assigned) Pigeonhole Principle and Existence  1.5 1.5.2-1.5.4, 1.5.7-1.5.10
January 12 F Counting Functions and Subsets/Multisets/Associated Objects 1 2.1, 2.2, Chapter 4  2.1.4-2.1.11, 2.1.16
January 15 M (No Class)  MLK Day 
January 17 W (HW 1 Due, HW 2 Assigned) Counting Functions and Subsets/Multisets/Associated Objects 2 2.1, 2.2, Chapter 4  2.2.4,2.2.9-13
January 19 F Counting Set Partitions/Integer Partitions/Associated Objects 1 2.3, 2.4, Chapter 4 2.3.5-13
January 22 M Counting Set Partitions/Integer Partitions/Associated Objects 2 2.3, 2.4, Chapter 4 2.4.3-13
January 23 Tu (x-hour) Friday Make Up 12 Fold Way
January 24 W (Exam 1) Ordinary Generating Functions 1 3.3
January 26 F (No Class)
January 29 M Ordinary Generating Functions 2 3.3
January 31 W (HW 2 Due, HW 3 Assigned) Ordinary Generating Functions 3 3.3
February  2 F Recurrence Relations 1 3.5
February 5 M Recurrence Relations 2 3.6

3.6 Problems

February 7 W (HW 3 Due, HW 4 Assigned) Exponential Generating Functions 1 3.4
February 9 F Exponential Generating Functions 2 3.4
February 12 M Exponential Generating Functions 3 3.4
February 14 W (HW 4 Due, HW 5 Assigned) Inclusion Exclusion 1 3.1 3.1.8-3.1.17
February 16 F Inclusion Exclusion 2 3.1
February 19 M Inclusion Exclusion 3 3.1
February 21 W ( Exam 2) Partially Ordered Sets Chapter 8
February 23 F Partially Ordered Sets Chapter 8 8.1.1,3,5,8,10,12
February 26 M Partially Ordered Sets Chapter 8 8.1.9,11, 8.2.4,5,6,7
February 28 W (HW 5 Due, HW 6 Assigned)  Partially Ordered Sets Chapter 8
March 1 F Partially Ordered Sets Chapter 8
March 4 M (HW 6 Due) Partially Ordered Sets Chapter 8