Lecture
times: Monday (Hill 254) and Wednesday (Hill 120) 5:00 pm – 6:20 pm
Recitation
class: Monday 6:55-7:50 PM Hill 254
Instructor: Dr. Ahmed Elgammal
Email: elgammal (at) cs.rutgers.edu
Email policy: you have to
include “CS205” in your subject to get a response.
Office hours: Friday 2:15-3:15 pm CoRE Building-
room 316, Busch Campus.
Class
webpage: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~elgammal/cs205.html
TA: Erick Chastain
TA Email: erickc @ cs.rutgers.edu
TA office hours:
Prerequisite: CS 111
Text Book: Kenneth Rosen, “Discrete Mathematics and Its
Applications”, Sixth Edition, WCB/McGraw-Hill. Available on reserve at SERC library.
Additional
useful text: The Student Solutions Guide. Available on reserve at SERC library.
Topics:
Set Theory, Relations, Discrete Functions, Logic,
Mathematical Reasoning, Elementary Number Theory, Sequences and Mathematical
Induction, Finite Automata and Regular expressions, Computability,
Applications.
Homework: about 8 homework assignments
(biweekly) . HWs are due typically on Mondays.
Quizzes: about 8 short quizzes (biweekly) to be given in the lecture following
homework submission. Quizzes will be typically on Wednesdays.
Midterms: Two midterms. Will be given on
class at lecture time. The first midterm will be on week 5 (on or around
10/5/2004). The second midterm will be about week 9 (on or around 11/2/2004).
Each midterm will cover a part of the course topics
Final
exam:
Comprehensive final exam. Friday 18-Dec 12:00-3:00 PM
All students are expected to adhere to the university policy on academic integrity. Copying and Cheating will not be tolerated.
Test
book web site : contain additional problems and
examples
TBA