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Lecture Notes

This section contains slides, in-class problems, and solutions. Students work in groups to solve the in-class problems; see the Syllabus for more information.

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LEC # TOPICS SLIDES PROBLEMS SOLUTIONS
Week 1
1 Good and bad proofs (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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2 Proof by contradiction (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 2
3 Well ordering principle (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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4 Propositional logic (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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5 Sets and relations (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF - 2.0MB)
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Week 3
6 Size of sets, mapping lemma (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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7 Predicates and quantifiers (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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8 Set theory, Russell paradox (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 4
9 Induction and strong induction (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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10 Partial orders (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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11 Partial orders and scheduling (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 5
12 Digraphs (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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13 State machines, preserved invariants (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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14 Derived variables, termination (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 6
15 Stable matching (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF - 2.5MB)
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16 Simple graphs, degrees, isomorphism (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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17 Graph connectedness, trees (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 7
18 Graph coloring, bipartite matching (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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19 Recursive data (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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20 Planar graphs (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 8
21 GCD and integer linear combinations (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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22 Modular arithmetic (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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23 Inverses (mod n), RSA encryption (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 9
24 Harmonic sums, Stirling's approximation (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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25 Asymptotics (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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26 Counting with bijections (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 10
27 Pigeonhole and division rules (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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28 Counting repetitions, card magic (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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29 Inclusion-exclusion, counting practice (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 11
30 Binomial theorem, combinatorial identities (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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31 Generating functions: for counting (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 12
32 Generating functions: for recurrences (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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33 Introduction to probability (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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34 Conditional probability, independence (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 13
35 Random variables (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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36 Expectation (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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37 Variance (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Week 14
38 Sampling and confidence (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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39 Random processes (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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