Math 55 - Discrete Mathematics - Spring 2004

Time and Location

  • T Th 2:00-3:30 in 100 Lewis

    • Instructor

  • Prof: Jim Demmel
  • Office hours: T W 10-11, Th 11-12, in 737 Soda Hall, 643-5386
  • (send email)
  • Secretary: Debi Wagner, 776 Soda Hall, 642-8395 (send email)

    • Course outline in pdf or postscript. (last updated Jan 20, 9:10pm)

  • This includes topics to be covered and grading policies. You are responsible for reading this and knowing the course rules about late or missing assignments, etc.
  • This handout, as well as all others on this web page, will also be available at Copy Central Northside.
  • Correction: (Jan 20, 9:10pm) The first midterm will be Feb 17, not Sep 17.

    • Teaching Assistants and Sections

    Enrollment Issues

  • Head TA Mike West is in charge of all enrollment issues, so please direct all queries to him. We do not anticipate any enrollment problems based on space.
  • Class waitlists: Anyone on the class waitlist must fill out a section preference form (available outside Mike West's office, 1045 Evans). You cannot be enrolled if you are on the waitlist unless you fill out this form. (dated Jan 28)

    • Homework Assignments

  • Correction to homework due March 17, posted Mar 16, 5:00am

    • Lecture notes

    Examinations

  • The final will be May 14, 12:30 - 3:30pm in Bechtel Auditorium. The same rules will apply as for the midterms: closed book, closed notes, closed calculator, closed computer, closed network, open brain.
  • Review sessions for Final (all sessions open to all students)
  • May 11, 2-4pm, 710 Evans (Ari)
  • May 11, 5-7pm, 9 Lewis (Jeremy)
  • May 11, 7-9pm, 70 Evans (Scott)
  • May 12, 3-5pm, 710 Evans (Ari)
  • May 13, 10-12am, 710 Evans (Ari)
  • Review sessions for Midterm 2:
  • Monday, Apr 5, 4-6 pm, 70 Evans, Ari Nieh (all students welcome)
  • Monday, Apr 5, 6-8 pm, 70 Evans, Jeremy Sain (all students welcome)

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    • Announcements and Handouts

  • Class waitlists: Anyone on the class waitlist must fill out a section preference form (available outside Mike West's office, 1045 Evans). You cannot be enrolled if you are on the waitlist unless you fill out this form. (dated Jan 28)
  • 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.
  • These are supplementary notes on Probability Theory by Hendrik Lenstra, in postscript or PDF.