Discrete Mathematics, Summer 2019

Time: 9am-12pm
Location: Room 1D508 in The Royal College of Music
Syllabus: click here
Piazza: click here

Schedule:

Tuesday, 5/21: Propositional Logic (1.1, 1.3)
*Note*: We will meet in the afternoon (at 1pm) this day, to not conflict with the 9am opening ceremony
Homework: Section 1.1, problems 2, 5ac, 6ace, 12acef, 13*, 18*, 21, 23, 25, 30; Section 1.3, problems 1ace, 3a, 5*, 8ac, 11ace, 12abc*, 22, 23*, 28, 31, 32
Other: Welcome dinner at 6:30pm at Urban Deli Nytorget

Wednesday, 5/22: Predicate Logic (1.4)
Homework: Section 1.4, problems 2, 3, 6, 12*, 14, 17abc, 19e*, 23abc, 28, 33

Thursday, 5/23: Nested Quantifiers and Rules of Inference (1.5, 1.6)
Homework: Section 1.5, problems 2, 3ace, 6be, 9acegi, 12acegi, 20*, 25, 28acegi*, 37, 45;
Section 1.6: problems 8, 10cde*, 13bd, 16ad*, 17, 19, 23*, 24

Friday, 5/24: Methods of Proof (1.7, 1.8)
Homework: Section 1.6, problem 11; Section 1.7, problems 1, 2, 6*, 7* (and study!)
Other: Walking tour of Gamla Stan (meet at Gustav Adolfs Torg at 4pm)

Monday, 5/27: Wrap up logic and proofs + Quiz 1 (on 1.1-1.6)
*Note*: We will meet in the afternoon (at 1pm) this day, to not conflict with the 9am lecture
Homework: Section 1.7, problems 9*, 10, 13, 16*, 18, 24* (read example 9 in this section for an idea about how to proceed!)
Other: Lecture on Swedish Language and Culture at 9am

Tuesday, 5/28: Set Theory (2.1, 2.2)
Homework: Section 2.1, problems 1, 7, 8, 10*, 17, 25*; Section 2.2, problems 4, 14, 18, 24*, 29, 30, 31
Other: Dinner with Swedish Families (meet at DIS at 6pm)

Wednesday, 5/29: Functions (2.3)
Homework: Section 2.1, problems 27, 30; Section 2.2, problems 48*, 51; Section 2.3, problems 2, 14, 20*, 31, 34, 40*, 41a, 45
Other: Nobel Prize Museum at 1:30pm

Thursday, 5/30: Integers, Divisibility, and Modular Arithmetic (4.1)
*Note*: We will meet in the afternoon (*edit* at 1pm at Hotell Zinkensdamm) this day, to not conflict with the tour
Homework: Section 2.3, problems 33*, 44; Section 4.1, problems 2, 3*, 5*, 8, 10abc; also, try to prove some of the statements from today’s lecture whose proofs we not given or only sketched
Other: Tour of the Royal Palace at 10:30am

Friday, 5/31: Primes and Elementary Number Theory (4.3)
Homework: Section 4.1, problems 24, 27, 35, 38*, 39, 41; Section 4.3, problems 2, 11, 12, 13*; also, try to develop a rule to test when a given positive integer is divisible by 3 (talk to me about this one, if you like!)

Monday, 6/3: Induction (5.1, 5.2) + Quiz 2
Homework: Section 4.3, problems 32ace, 40acegi (plus more to be added), 43, 44 (here, a “linear combination of a and b” means an expression of the form xa+yb for integers x and y, as we discussed in lecture);
Section 5.1, problems 6, 10*, 41, 51, 64*; Section 5.2, problems 12, 29

Tuesday, 6/4: Equivalence Relations (9.1, 9.5)
Homework: Section 5.2, problems 4, 25; Section 9.1, problems 4, 6*, 7 (but ignore “antisymmetric” for all of these, since we didn’t cover that concept); Section 9.5, problems 3abc, 9, 16*, 28abc, 35, 36
Other: Visit to Institute Mittag-Leffler

Wednesday, 6/5: Combinatorics (6.1-6.4)
Homework: Section 6.1, problems 1, 7, 8, 22, 40; Section 6.3, problems 13, 19, 33; Section 6.4, problems 3, 7, 17, 19 (Pascal’s identity was our third property of binomial coefficients), 21
(note: don’ worry about doing all of these, they are just some suggested problems for practice on Wednesday’s material before the final)

Thursday, 6/6: Wrap up and Review
Homework: Study!
Other: Archipelago Tour at 10:30am

Friday, 6/7: Final Exam
Homework: Don’t forget all the discrete math you’ve learned before the fall
Other: Concluding dinner at 6pm at Restaurant Kvarnen