General information

Click here for the handout from the first day of class.

Instructor

Text

Linear and Discrete Mathematics, Special edition for the Georgia Institute of Technology, with excerpts taken from Discrete Mathematics with Graph Theory, Third edition, by Edgar G. Goodaire and Michael M. Parmenter and from Elementary Linear Algebra with Applications, Ninth edition, by Bernard Kolman and David R. Hill.

Course Description

The basics of mathematical induction and recursively defined sequences; complexity and rates of growth; combinatorics, counting methods, and elementary probability; graph theory and graph algorithms; linear algebra; linear programming and the simplex method.

Class Meetings

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:05-4:25 in Howey Physics Building, Room L2.

Office Hours

Tuesday and Wednesday from 1:00 to 2:00, and by appointment. The TA office hours are as follows: Geehoon Hong, Tuesday 11-12, Skiles 146A; Yun Gong, Monday 11-12, Skiles 145; Ke Yin, Wednesday 3-4, Skiles 246.

Section

Section	CRN	Classroom	Teaching Assistant	Email	Office
L1	81801	Skiles 255	Geehoon Hong	geehoon@math.gatech.edu	Skiles 146A
L2	81794	Skiles 246	Ke Yin	kyin@math.gatech.edu	Skiles 161
L3	82416	Skiles 169	Yun Gong	ygong@math.gatech.edu	Skiles 145

You must go to your assigned section. TA office hours will be announced on the course web site.

Homework and Quizzes

Homework will be assigned on the course web site, It will not be collected or graded. The quizzes will consist of problems that are similar to homework problems. Quizzes will be given every Wednesday, in section, except during exam weeks.

Exams

Midterm exams will be held on the following dates, in section.

September 14
October 12
November 16

The final exam will be held on December 13, 11:30-2:20 in Howey L2, our usual room. The final exam is cumulative.

Grading

Grades will be assigned using one of the following two schemes, whichever results in a higher number.

	Scheme 1	Scheme 2
Quizzes	10%	10%
Midterm exams	60% = 20% + 20% + 20% (all 3 exams)	40% = 20% + 20% (best 2 of 3 exams)
Final exams	30%	50%

Letter grades will be assigned using the usual scale: 90-100% is an A, 80-89% is a B, 70-79% is a C, 60-69% is a D, and 59% or worse is an F.

Academic Honesty

All students are expected to comply with the Georgia Tech honor code.