Course Description
This course is an introduction to discrete applied mathematics. Topics include probability, counting, linear programming, number-theoretic algorithms, sorting, data compression, and error-correcting codes. This is a [Communication Intensive in the …
This course is an introduction to discrete applied mathematics. Topics include probability, counting, linear programming, number-theoretic algorithms, sorting, data compression, and error-correcting codes. This is a Communication Intensive in the Major (CI-M) course, and thus includes a writing component.
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A representation for Batcher’s algorithm on 8 inputs; the color coding refers to sorting in groups of size 8 from groups of size 4. (Image by Michel Goemans.)
