Schedule: CSE 2813 Discrete Structures, Spring 2014

All dates are tentative except for the final exam date.  I will adjust this schedule as the semester progresses.

Week Class Dates Events Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
1 Mon, Jan 13   Class Overview
1.1 Logic
1.2 Propositional Equivalences
Wed, Jan 15  
2 Mon, Jan 20 no class – MLK day 1.3 Predicates and Quantifiers
Wed, Jan 22 Quiz 1
3 Mon, Jan 27   1.4 Nested Quantifiers
1.5 Rules of Inference
Wed, Jan 29 Quiz 2
Homework 1 due
4 Mon, Feb 3   1.6 Introduction to Proofs
2.1 Sets
Wed, Feb 5 Quiz 3
5 Mon, Feb 10   2.2 Set Operations
Wed, Feb 12 no class – bad weather
6 Mon, Feb 17   2.3 Functions
2.4 Sequences and Summations
Wed, Feb 19 Quiz 4
Homework 2 due
7 Mon, Feb 24   3.1 Algorithms
Wed, Feb 26 Midterm I
8 Mon, Mar 3   3.2 Growth of Functions
3.3 Complexity of Algorithms
Wed, Mar 5 Homework 3 due
Honors project descriptions due
  Mon, Mar 10 no class Spring Break
Wed, Mar 12 no class
9 Mon, Mar 17   4.1 Mathematical Induction
Wed, Mar 19 Quiz 5
10 Mon, Mar 24   4.2 Strong Induction
4.3 Recursive Definitions
Wed, Mar 26 Quiz 6
Homework 4 due
11 Mon, Mar 31 Dr. Swan out of town
Midterm II
 
Wed, Apr 2 Dr. Swan out of town
no class
12 Mon, Apr 7   5.1 Basics of Counting
5.2 The Pigeonhole Principle
Wed, Apr 9 Homework 5 due
13 Mon, Apr 14   5.3 Permutations and Combinations
Wed, Apr 16 Quiz 7
14 Mon, Apr 21 Homework 6 due 7.1 Recurrence Relations, Tower of Hanoi
8.1 Relations and Their Properties
8.3 Representing Relations
Wed, Apr 23 Honors projects due
15 Mon, Apr 28 Quiz 8 9.1 Introduction to Graphs
9.2 Graph Terminology
9.3 Representing Graphs and Graph Isomorphism
Wed, Apr 30 Homework 7 due
16 Tue, May 6 Final Exam  3 – 6 pm, Butler 104
Last Modified: April 24, 2014