MAT5423
Introduction to basic discrete structures.
Sample textbooks:
[1] Gordon Pace, Mathematics of Discrete Structures foe Computer Science, Springer, 2012 [2] Vladlen Koltun, Discrete Structures Lecture Notes, Stanford University, 2008.link
Catalog entry
Prerequisite: Algebra and Number Systems (MAT 1313), or Discrete Mathematical Structures (CS 2233/2231), or instructor consent.
Contents: Propositional logic: Axioms and Rules of Inference. Boolean Algebras. Limitations of propositional logic: Informal introduction to quantifiers and syllogisms. Predicate Logic: Existential and universal quantification, free variables and substitutions. Discussion of the various axiomatic systems for first-order logic (including axioms and rules of inference). The power and the limitations of axiomatic systems for logic: Informal discussion of the completeness and incompleteness theorems. Sets: Operations on sets. Correspondence between finitary set operations and propositional logic. Correspondence between infinitary operations and quantifiers. The power and limitations of the language of set theory: Informal discussion of the set-theoretic paradoxes and the need for axiomatic systems for set theory. Relations: Properties of relations. Special relations: Equivalence relations, partially ordered sets, totally ordered sets. Functions: Operations of functions, direct image and inverse image. Well-ordered sets: Correspondence between well-ordering relations and induction. Correspondence between well-ordering relations and choice functions. Introduction to computability. Classical models of computation (recursive functions, and Turing models). Limitations of computation (the Halting Problem, the busy beaver problem, fast-growing functions). Contemporary models of computation.
Topics List
| Week | Topic | Sections from Pace's book | Calculus 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Propositional logic | 2.1-2.4 | Undergraduate real analysis. |
| 3-4 | Completeness and soundness | 2.5-2.7. | |
| 4-5 | Predicate calculus | 3.1-3.5 | |
| 6-7 | Sets and boolean algebras | 4.1-4.8 | |
| 8 | Relations | 5.1-6.3 | |
| 9-10 | Discrete structures | Graphs, trees, networks, and data | 7.1-8.4 |
| 10-16 | Models of computation | Graphs, trees, networks, and data | 7.1-8.4 |
