Derek Garton (email and office: gartondw[at]pdx.edu and Fariborz Maseeh Hall (FMH) 468M).
Shattuck Hall (SH), Room 210, TuTh, 10:00am–11:50am.
Tuesdays 1:30pm–2:30pm, Wednesdays 1pm–2pm, or by appointment.
Oscar Levin, Discrete Mathematics—An Open Introduction, fourth edition.
This course presents some of the basic properties of proofs, propositional logic, sets, relations, inverse functions, induction, inclusion-exclusion, permutations, combinations, graph theory, and recursion.
At the end of the course, students will be prepared to use these concepts in their future mathematical endeavors.
I hope this course will be joyful and interesting to everybody.
It will be challenging and we will support each other.
Please be prepared to take an active, critical, patient, and generous role in your own learning and that of your classmates.
The course schedule records the material we cover in the text and the homework assignments.
Engaging with the homework is essential, and it will likely require a substantial amount of time and effort. Working on the exercises with classmates is an excellent way to enhance your learning, but do the problems on your own. Please try not to look on the internet for answers: struggling with the problems on your own (with the help of the text, your classmates, and the instructor) is part of the learning process. Since everybody has a hard week now and again, I will drop your lowest HW grade.
Portland State has kindly provided a discussion group for this course.
Feel free to use them to talk about math.
This discussion group serves the role of an email list for the class.
Therefore, you must be a member.
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