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The following calendar will be populated with links to material from each lecture, so you can catch up on anything you’ve missed and revisit important material.

Wednesday, January 18th, 2022:

  • Snow day!

Friday, January 20th, 2022:

Monday, January 23rd, 2022:

  • We discussed the solutions to the first proof assignment (sudoku), what a proof is, what purpose it serves and what we’re looking for in this class.
  • We read the textbook together with an emphasis on active reading, and addressed some questions from the reading (Section 1.1 of Hammack).

Wednesday, January 25th, 2022:

  • We looked over a sets/set-builder study sheet, introduced the notion of a subset, and played a bingo game to practice all these notions.  We have essentially wrapped up the material in 1.1 and 1.3 of Hammack.  Here’s the notes/study-sheet and the bingo sheet and card deck.

Friday, January 27th, 2022:

Monday, January 30th, 2022:

  • We looked over the cups problem solution.
  • We discussed the Multiplication Principle (Textbook Section 3.2, phrased in terms of “lists” Section 3.1) for counting problems and did the first few problems of the counting sheet together.
  • Class notes from our discussion.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2022:

  • We had our first in class proof quiz.  The schedule of quizzes is under the “Grading” tab.
  • We worked on some more counting problems from our counting worksheet.
  • Class notes from our discussion.

Friday, February 3rd, 2022:

  • We discussed a variety of counting problems from our counting worksheet.
  • These included overcounting.
  • We recording the “Division principle” for uniform overcounting.
  • We defined the binomial coefficient and proved a formula for it.
  • We proved a combinatorial identity (a sum of binomial coefficients comes out to a power of two) using combinatorial proof.
  • Here are class notes.

Monday, February 6th, 2022:

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023:

Friday, February 10th, 2023:

Monday, February 13th, 2023:

  • We covered intersection, union, set difference, complement, disjoint (definitions for sets).
  • We proved that the square root of 2 is irrational.
  • Here are class notes.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023:

Friday, February 17th, 2023:

Monday, February 20th, 2023:

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023:

Friday, February 24th, 2023:

Monday, February 27th, 2023:

  • We looked over the solutions to the last proof quiz.
  • We introduced Boolean algebra and truth tables as a way of verifying logical laws.  We revisited some of the negations we had met previously and checked them as truth tables.
  • Logical laws listing
  • Notes from class

Wednesday, March 1st, 2023:

Friday, March 3rd, 2023:

Monday, March 6th, 2023:

Wednesday, March 8th, 2023:

  • We did some example proofs of the existence variety, then we had the proof quiz.
  • class notes

Friday, March 10th, 2023:

Monday, March 13th, 2023:

  • We covered contrapositive and converse.
  • We demonstrated proof by contrapositive.
  • We demonstrated proof of an “if-and-only-if”
  • We began Graph Theory by defining a graph.
  • class notes

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023:

  • Reviewed solutions to last proof test
  • Reviewed solutions to practice problems for logic
  • Took the logic quiz

Friday, March 17th, 2023:

  • We discussed how many different math problems reveal themselves to be graph theory problems.
  • Class notes

Monday, March 20th, 2023:

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023:

  • Class notes (we took up the proof for feedback, a variation on the take-2-or-1 game).
  • Proof quiz #5 (contrapositive)

Friday, March 24th, 2023:

Monday, April 3rd, 2023:

Wednesday, April 5th, 2023:

Friday, April 7th, 2023:

  • We took up the modular arithmetic practice sheet. (notes on this from class)
  • We discussed number systems (“rings”), additive and multiplicative inverses and whether they exist in Z/nZ.
  • We took up the proof for feedback.
  • We defined the rational numbers via a notion of equivalence on pairs of integers.
  • Class notes.
  • A recording of class is available on canvas.

Monday, April 10th, 2023:

  • We took up the last proof quiz (induction).
  • We summarized some motivations for the notion of an “equivalence relation”
  • We listed three properties it should have: reflexive, symmetric, transitive
  • We verified that equivalence modulo n has these properties.
  • We formally defined a relation, and discussed examples of relations (as sets of ordered pairs and as arrow diagrams).
  • We formally defined the properties reflexive, symmetric and transitive, and gave examples and non-examples.
  • Class notes.
  • A recording of class is available on canvas.

Wednesday, April 12th, 2023:

  • I was ill, so in class you just did the proof quiz, and the daily post was longer than usual, covering equivalence relations and partitions.

Friday, April 14th, 2023:

  • Took up solutions to latest proof for feedback.
  • Reviewed the basic ideas of equivalence relations and partitions.
  • Introduced the definition of a function, both informally and formally (as a subset of a Cartesian product).
  • How to represent a function: table, graph, arrow diagram, formula (sometimes), set of pairs.
  • Injective, Surjective and Bijective
  • Class notes.
  • Class was recorded; video on canvas.

Monday, April 17th, 2023:

Wednesday, April 19th, 2023:

  • We took up the review questions on relations.
  • Class notes.
  • We did the relations quiz.

Friday, April 21st, 2023:

Monday, April 26th, 2023:

  • We discussed, for functions on finite sets, when injectivity and surjectivity are possible (together or alone).
  • We proved several of these, including that for sets of the same size, injectivity implies surjectivity, and vice versa.
  • We discussed pigeonhole principle and did examples.
  • class notes
  • Video is on canvas

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023:

  • We did a few last pigeonhole problems
  • We defined composition, identity function, and inverse functions, with examples
  • class notes
  • Video on canvas

Friday, April 28th, 2023:

  • we covered inverse functions
  • proved that a function is bijective if and only if it has an inverse
  • class notes
  • video on canvas

Monday May 1st, 2023:

  • we talked about cardinalities
  • class notes
  • video on canvas