18.304 | Spring 2015 | Undergraduate

Undergraduate Seminar in Discrete Mathematics

Course Description

This course is a student-presented seminar in combinatorics, graph theory, and discrete mathematics in general. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication is emphasized, with participants reading and presenting papers from recent mathematics literature and writing a final paper in a related topic.
Learning Resource Types
Problem Sets
Projects with Examples
Written Assignments
Instructor Insights
Three rings linked together in the colors red, green, and blue.
Borromean rings in three dimensions. The topic of one presentation for this class is called “The Borromean rings don’t exist.” (Image by Jim.belk on Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain.)