Syllabus 21-301

SYLLABUS

21-301 Combinatorics, Fall 2020
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1:20pm -- 2:10pm, On-line
Office hours:Thursday 1:00PM--3:00PM, On-line

Professor Alan Frieze
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Cov Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
Office: Wean Hall 6204
Fax: 412-268-6380
Email: alan@random.math.cmu.edu

TA: Zimu Xiang @:zimux (andrew.cmu.edu )

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 3: Monday, November 16.

Test 4: Last day of classes.

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.