Discrete Mathematics for Electrical and Computer Engineering

Spring 2007

 

Course Specifics:

Instructor: Wade Trappe

Time: TuTh 1:40pm—3:00pm

Place: EN-B120

 

The course syllabus may be obtained from here.

 

 

Date

Lecture Material

Assignments

01/16/2007

Class Syllabus

 

 

Chalkboard Introductory Lecture

None yet...

01/18/2007

Chalkboard Lecture

Still None...

01/23/2007

Chalkboard Lecture: Finish circuits, introduce set theory

Reading: Chapter 11, Chapter 2

Chapter  1.2: # 11, 52

Chapter 11.1: # 4, 11, 30

Chapter 11.2: # 2, 7, 18

Chapter 11.4: # 3, 4, 11, 13

Chapter 11.5: # 7, 10, 15

01/25/2007

Chalkboard Lecture: Finish Chapter 2 and cover induction

 

2/06/2007

Covering Chapter 4.3

 

Announcement: first exam will be February 22nd.

Chapter  1.7: # 1, 7, 21, 39

Chapter 2.1: # 4, 18, 25, 64

Chapter 2.2: # 12, 20, 27, 37, 49

Chapter 2.3: # 8, 9, 51, 76

Chapter 4.2: # 13

Chapter 4.3: # 10, 19, 28, 34

 

Due Date: 2/15/2007

2/15/2007

Intro to MATLAB slides

 

Today we will cover Chapter 4.4, recursive functions and talk about the computer project.

Computer Project 1

 

 

3/6/2007

Probability lecture

Chapter 4.4: # 9, 18, 23

Chapter 6.2: # 14, 38, 42, 63

Chapter 6.7: # 7,  21, 28

 

Due Date: 3/20/2007

3/27/2007

Graph Theory Lecture

Slides

Chapter 6.5: # 11, 32, 43, 47

Chapter 8.2: 5, 23, 47, 58, 70

Chapter  8.3: # 3, 16

Chapter 8.4: # 1, 2

Chapter 8.5: #1, 2, 13

 

Due Date: 4/12/07

4/3/2007

 

Computer Project 2

Due April 26, 2007

 

The Map of the Kingdom of Rutgers

4/5/2007

Shortest path algorithm slides

 

Life after undergraduate school slides

 

4/19/2007

Announcement 1: The exam is still on for today.

 

Announcement 2: All student groups who would be interested in a regrade of project 1 may turn in the report for  the professor to regrade (not the TA).

 

Announcement 3: More explicit guidelines for the report for project 2 will come soon.

 

4/24/2007

 

Project 2 deadline extended to May 3rd! All reports MUST be in by 5pm on May  3rd.

 

Guidelines for Report 2

4/30/2007

Slides giving examples of number theoretic problems

 

5/4/2007

Exams to Study by

Exam 1A

Exam 1B

Exam 2A

Exam 2B