Discrete Mathematics

Instructor - Robert Hochberg 
Office-         STC C-121 
Phone-         328-9685 
Email-         hochberg@cs.ecu.edu
Text - Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, by Rosen, 5th edition Office Hours
MW: 11-12 and 3:30-5:00

 
The Discussion Board is available.  Please use it!  (Click on "Communication," then "Discussion Board".)

Extras:
Picture of the 12 Polyominos
Java program for large primes and the BigInteger class
Course Schedule
(subject to change)
Monday
Wednesday
Friday


1/11 - Some probability questions
Student Notes (Brian and Steven)
1/14 - Student Notes (Sean and Kevin)
Cool 15-puzzle applet
1/16 - Student Notes (Steven and Edward)
1/18 - Parity and Transpositions
Student Notes (David and Drew)
1/21 - No Class
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1/23 - How many (long or short) rungs in a net diagram?
Student Notes (Otis and Jeffrey)
Homework 2, due 1/30 in class
1/25 - Cycles and the end of Nets
Student Notes (Joe and Bobby)
More Student Notes

1/28 - Composition of Permutations and the Cube
Student Notes  (Travis and Rashid)
1/30 - Homework due today
Review of Homework
Student Notes (Peter and James)
2/1 - Introduction to Counting
Student Notes (Mahoganie and David)
2/4 - Sets and Functions
Student Notes (Kyle and Brian H.)
2/6 - The sum and product rules
Student Notes (Nick and Brandon)
2/8 - Introduction to Anagrams and Factorial
Student Notes (Rachel and Robert)
2/11 - The Anagram Formula
Student Notes (Keehln and Michael)
Homework 3, due 2/18 in class 
2/13 - Anagrams and Grids
Student Notes img1, img2 (Rey and Woody)
2/15 - Choose Numbers 
Student Notes (Te'Aira and Scott)
2/18 - Probability Questions
Student Notes (Sean and Kevin)
2/20 - Exam Review
2/22 - First Exam
Study Guide
2/25 - Pascal's Triangle
Student Notes ()
2/27 - The Binomial Theorem
Student Notes (Steven and Edward)
2/29 - Review of First Exam
Student Notes ()
Homework 4 - due Friday, 3/7
3/3 - Introduction to Cryptography - Card trick
Student Notes (Joe and Bobby)
More Notes
(Joe and Bobby)
3/5 - Functions and Card Tricks
Student Notes (Travis and Rashid)
3/7 -
Homework 4 due today
Redos of Homework 1 due today.
3/10 - Spring Break
3/12 - Spring Break 3/14 -Spring Break
3/17 - Some Modular Arithmetic
Student Notes (Mahoganie and David)
3/19 -
3/21 -
3/24 - Fermat's Little Theorem
Student Notes (Brandon and Nick)
3/26 - Modular Exponentiation
Student Notes ()
3/28 - Multiplicative Inverses mod n
3/31 - The Euclidean Algorithm
Student Notes (Keehln and Michael)
4/2 - Introduction to RSA

4/4 - RSA and Java
Student Notes (Peter)
4/7 - RSA Example and Large Exponents

4/9 - Exam II review
4/11 - Exam II
Study Guide
Homework 5 due today
4/14 -
4/16 - Notes
Student Notes  (Jeffrey and Otis)
4/18 - Notes
4/21 - Notes
4/23 - Notes
4/25 - Student Notes (Joe Hang)
4/28 - Notes
Final Homework



Final Exam, 8am, in our usual classroom