Syllabus 21-301

SYLLABUS

21-301 Combinatorics, Fall 2023
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10:00am -- 10:50pm. WEH8220.
Office hours: Professor Frieze, Monday, Thursday 11:00AM--12:00PM, WEH6204.
Jakob Hofstad: Friday, 2:00PM-3:00PM, WEH6203.

Professor Alan Frieze
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
Office: Wean Hall 6204
Fax: 412-268-6380
Email: frieze@cmu.edu
TA: Jakob Hofstad

Textbooks: There is no assigned textbook. I will work from the course notes.

Course Notes:

You can find some more notes in Notes and Spring2003 and DiscretMathNotes.

Homework : Homework exercises will be assigned on a weekly basis, more or less.

Exam Schedule:
Test 1 Wednesday, September 20.
Test 2 Friday, October 13
Test 3: Wednesday, November 8.
Test 4: Last day of classes.

Material covered so far.

Assessment: Homework 10%, Tests 90%.
8 best homeworks and 3 best tests count towards final grade.
Old Tests

Curriculum Goals: The aim of this course is to introduce the student to some of the most important ideas in Discrete Mathematics.
A subsidiary goal is to show how these ideas can be used to solve problems in Computer Science.