Kevin Milans : Teaching : Fall 2019 Math375

Kevin Milans (milans@math.wvu.edu)
Office: Armstrong Hall 408H
Office Hours: MW 10:30am-11:30am and by appointment
Class Meetings: TR 1:00pm-2:15pm in ARM 315

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Course Schedule

No. Date Class Summary Section(s) Quiz Quiz Soln Comments
1 Aug 22 Introduction; Rules of Sum and Product 1.1 - - -
2 Aug 27 Permutations 1.2 - - HW1 posted.
3 Aug 29 Combinations 1.3 - - -
4 Sep 3 Poker Hands; Sigma Notation 1.3 - - HW1 due. HW2 posted.
5 Sep 5 Binomial Theorem; Pascal's Triangle 1.3 Q1 Q1-soln Quiz 1 in class.
6 Sep 10 Stars and Bars Model 1.4 - - HW2 due. HW3 posted.
7 Sep 12 Set Theory 3.1 Q2 Q2-soln Quiz 2 in class.
8 Sep 17 Set Theory II; Powerset; Test 1 Review 3.1 - - HW3 due. HW4 posted.
9 Sep 19 Test 1 - T1 T1-soln Test 1 in class.
10 Sep 24 Cartesian Product; Countability; Russel's Paradox 3.2 - - HW4 due. HW5 posted.
11 Sep 26 Cantor's Diagonalization Argument - Q4 Q4-soln Quiz 4 in class.
12 Oct 1 Russel's Paradox; Probability Theory 3.4,3.5 - - HW5 due. HW6 posted.
13 Oct 3 Probability Theory II: Independence 3.6 Q5 Q5-soln Quiz 5 in class.
14 Oct 8 Probability Examples; Birthday Paradox 3.5,3.6 - - HW6 due. HW7 posted.
- Oct 10 No Class: Fall Break - - - (No Quiz 6.)
15 Oct 15 Languages, Automata Ch 6; S 1.1 - - HW7 due. Note: S is Sipser, Intro. to Theory of Computation
16 Oct 17 Test 2: Lectures 7--14 and HW 4--7 - T2 T2-soln Test 2 in class. HW8 posted.
17 Oct 22 Deterministic Finite Automata I S 1.2 - - HW8 due. HW9 posted.
18 Oct 24 DFA's II S 1.2 Q8 Q8-soln Quiz 8 in class.
19 Oct 29 Nondeterministic Finite Automata - - - HW9 due. HW10 posted.
20 Oct 31 NFA to DFA - Q9 Q9-soln Quiz 9 in class.
21 Nov 5 NFA to DFA Examples; Concatenation of languages - - - HW10 due.
22 Nov 7 NFA application: 4 corners 11.1 Q10 Q10-soln Quiz 10 in class. HW11 posted.
23 Nov 12 Review Test 3 - - - HW11 due.
24 Nov. 14 Test 3: Lectures 15--22 and HW 8--11 - T3 T3-soln Test 3 in class.
25 Nov 19 Intro to Graphs 11.1 - - HW12 posted.
26 Nov 21 Intro to Graphs II 11.2,11.3 - - -
27 Dec 3 Planar graphs; Euler's formula 11.4 - - HW 12 due.
28 Dec 5 Planar graph edge bound; Network flows 11.4, 13.3 Q12 Q12-soln Quiz 12 in class. HW13 assigned.
29 Dec 10 Network cuts; max-flow/min-cut theorem; matchings 13.3,13.4 - - -
30 Dec 12 Stable Matchings; Gale--Shapley Algorithm - - - HW13 due.
- Dec 20 Final Exam: Fri Dec 20, 11am-1pm - - - -

milans@math.wvu.edu