Mathematics

• MATH 381: Discrete Mathematics

MATH 381: Discrete Mathematics

This course serves as a transition from computational to more theoretical mathematics. Topics are from the foundations of mathematics: logic, set theory, relations and functions, induction, permutations and combinations, and recurrence.

Required Materials

This is a self-contained course—the online lectures serve as the text. However, you are required to have:

• a calculator with the combinatorial functions (permutations and combinations). Any graphing calculator will have these functions. The Texas Instruments TI-84 is one used by many students.
• either a scanner to scan handwritten pages or an equation editor to use with your word processor. Your copy of Microsoft Word may already have Microsoft Equation Editor (choose Object from the Insert menu; if Equation is one of the options available, then you have Microsoft Equation Editor). A recommended equation editor is MathType, which is available from Design Science, Inc.
• a browser that is capable of displaying mathematical notation (MathML). The latest version of Mozilla Firefox is recommended, and you can download it for free from the Firefox site. You can use Internet Explorer 6 or higher, but you will have to download and install free software called MathPlayer from Design Science.

Course Details

• Instructor: Russell Rowlett, PhD
• Department: Mathematics
• Credit hours: 3
• Prerequisite: MATH 232
• Permission of the Department of Mathematics is required for full-time UNC-Chapel Hill students.
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• A sample course syllabus is not yet available.

How to Enroll

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