Math 55 - Discrete Mathematics - Fall 2007

Time and Location

  • MWF 12-1 in 277 Cory

    • Instructor

  • Prof: Jim Demmel
  • Office hours: T Th 10-11am in 737 Soda Hall, starting Aug 30, 643-5386
  • (send email)
  • Secretary: Tammy Johnson, 719 Soda Hall, 643-4816 (send email)

    • Course outline in pdf (last updated Aug 26, 4:55am)

  • This includes topics to be covered, exam schedules, and grading policies. You are responsible for reading this and knowing the course rules about late or missing assignments, etc.

    • Teaching Assistants and Sections

  • (9/6) An Huang's office hours have changed.
  • (8/30) Andrew Marks's office hours are now posted.

    • Enrollment Issues

  • (8/29) Please see Barbara Peavy (peavy@math, 967 Evans) for enrollment matters.
  • There is plenty of space in lecture, so as long as you are willing to attend a section that is not filled up, you should be able to register.

    • Homework Assignments

  • (12/16) Corrections have been posted to answers for Homework 12.
  • (12/5) The last homework will be due Monday, Dec 10, the last day of class.
  • (11/2) There will be no homework due or quiz on Nov 7, the day of the 2nd midterm.
  • (9/16) The 3rd homework is due on Wednesday, 9/19, in section as usual. It had been erroneously posted as due 9/18.

    • Lecture notes

  • (12/10) Extra lecture notes on the Central Limit Theorem, in pdf, by Andrew Marks

    • Examinations

  • (12/17) The final exam will be Wednesday, Dec 19, 5-8pm, in 4 LeConte.
  • (12/17) For the final, you will be allowed 2 double-sided sheets (4 pages) of notes that can be read without a magnifying glass.
  • (12/12) More old final exams have now been posted.
  • (12/11) There will be 2 review sessions for the final:
  • Sunday, Dec 16, 5-7:30pm in 3 Evans
  • Monday, Dec 17, 5-7:30pm in 106 Moffitt
  • (11/2) Another old midterm has been posted here.
  • (11/2) The 2nd midterm will cover everything since the first midterm, through the material covered on Homework Assignment 9, i.e. through the end of section 5.4 in the text.
  • (11/1) There will be 3 review sessions for the second midterm:
  • Sunday, 11/4, 3-5pm in 3 Evans
  • Monday, 11/5, 4-6pm in 2 Leconte
  • Monday, 11/5, 6:30-8:30pm in 56 Barrows
  • (9/27) We found an error in the posted answer to question 3.2, and posted a correction. If you feel you may deserve more points for question 3.2, please give the exam to your TA as soon as possible.
  • (9/27) The histogram of Midterm 1 scores, and an approximate letter grading scheme have been posted.
  • (9/21) The location of the Friday review session has been changed to 70 Evans. The time is the same.
  • (9/19) There will be 2 review sessions for the first midterm: Friday, 9/21, from 5:30-7:30 in 7 Evans, and Sunday, 9/23, from 3:00-5:00 in 3 Evans.
  • Midterm 1 will be in class on Monday, Sept 24.
  • Midterm 2 will be in class on Wednesday, Nov 7.
  • The final will be Wednesday, Dec 19, 5-8pm.
  • The same rules will apply as for all exams: closed book, closed calculator, closed computer, closed network, open brain. We will permit one page of notes (double sided), that can be read without a magnifying glass, to be brought to midterms. Details will be announced later.

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    • Announcements and Handouts

  • (12/3) Course Evaluations (of the instructor and GSIs) will be done in section on 12/5.
  • These are supplementary notes on the Halting Problem by W. Kahan, in pdf.
  • The textbook "Discrete Mathematics and its Applications" by Kenneth Rosen has a website containing supplementary material, animations of various algorithms, and so on, although this is still just for the 5th edition.
  • These are supplementary notes on Probability Theory by Hendrik Lenstra that were used in previous offerings of Math 55, in postscript or PDF.