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= Combinatorics and Probability - MAT2313=  
3 Credit Hours
 
 
 
==Course Catalog==  
 
 
''Corequisite'': [[MAT1224]].  
 
''Corequisite'': [[MAT1224]].  
  
''Content'': Basic counting principles. Permutations and combinations. Binomial and multinomial coefficients. Pigeonhole and inclusion-exclusion principles. Graphs, colorings, planarity. Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs. Recurrence relations. Generating functions. Prerequisites: MAT1224 Calculus II and MAT 1313 Algebra and Number Systems.
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''Content'': Basic counting principles. Permutations and combinations. Binomial and multinomial coefficients. Pigeonhole and inclusion-exclusion principles. Graphs, colorings, planarity. Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs. Recurrence relations. Generating functions. Prerequisites: MAT1224 Calculus II and MAT 1313 Algebra and Number Systems. 3 Credit Hours
 
 
==Description==
 
Introduction to the theory of probability, through the study of discrete and continuous random variables.
 
  
==Sample textbooks==
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''Sample textbooks'': Alan Tucker, Applied Combinatorics (6th ed). Wiley (2012).  
Alan Tucker, Applied Combinatorics (6th ed). Wiley (2012).  
 
  
 
==Topics List==
 
==Topics List==
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Week 8: Trees. Colorings. Planarity.
 
Week 8: Trees. Colorings. Planarity.
  
Week 9: Review. First midterm exam.
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Week 9: Review. Second midterm exam.
  
 
Week 10: Generating functions. The Binomial Theorem. Partitions.
 
Week 10: Generating functions. The Binomial Theorem. Partitions.

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Combinatorics and Probability - MAT2313

Corequisite: MAT1224.

Content: Basic counting principles. Permutations and combinations. Binomial and multinomial coefficients. Pigeonhole and inclusion-exclusion principles. Graphs, colorings, planarity. Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs. Recurrence relations. Generating functions. Prerequisites: MAT1224 Calculus II and MAT 1313 Algebra and Number Systems. 3 Credit Hours

Sample textbooks: Alan Tucker, Applied Combinatorics (6th ed). Wiley (2012).

Topics List

Course outline:

Week 1: Finite sets, strings, enumeration, the addition and product rules.

Week 2: Combinations, permutations.

Week 3: Binomial and multinomial coefficients.

Week 4: The Pigeonhole Principle. The Inclusion-Exclusion Formula, derangements, the Euler ɸ function (totient).

Week 5: Review. First midterm exam.

Week 6: Graphs and multigraphs.

Week 7: Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs.

Week 8: Trees. Colorings. Planarity.

Week 9: Review. Second midterm exam.

Week 10: Generating functions. The Binomial Theorem. Partitions.

Week 11: Recurrence relations. Linear recurrences.

Week 12: Solving recurrences by generating functions.

Week 13: Exponential generating functions. Nonlinear recurrences.

Week 15: Review.