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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:

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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:

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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