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Lecture topics
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The following are brief descriptions of topics covered in lectures.
- 8/23/11 - Introduction: administrative information, motivating examples
- 8/25/11 - Introduction to propositional logic
- 8/30/11 - Propositional logic (cont.), introduction to predicates and quantifiers
- 9/01/11 - Predicates and quantifiers (cont.), nested quantifiers, order of quantifiers, translation from/to english/logic expressions, negation of quantifiers
- 9/06/11 - Rules of inference and introduction to proofs
- 9/08/11 - Proof methods
- 9/13/11 - Algorithms and growth of functions.
- 9/15/11 - Complexity of algorithms.
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Discussion topics
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The following are brief descriptions of topics covered in the discussion
sections (courtesy of the TAs).
- Discussion on Monday (8/22/2011) by Yu Cheng: review of sets/functions/sequences/summations/cardinality/etc
(TXT)
and a preview of next week's discussion
(TXT)
- Discussion on Thursday (9/8/2011) by Yu Cheng: homework discussion
(TXT)
- Discussion on Thursday (9/15/2011) by Yuan Yao: review of big-O notation; discussion of problems in section 3.2: 5, 20, 21, 41.
- Discussion on Monday (9/19/2011) by Yu Cheng: similar to 9/15/2011 discussion.
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