COURSE: Discrete Mathematics, M325K #58810, Fall 2008 ------ TEXT: S.S. Epp, "Discrete Mathematics with Applications", third edition ---- SYLLABUS: fundamentals of logic and set theory; functions and relations; -------- integers, and elementary number theory; recursion and induction; counting techniques and combinatorics; introductory graph theory. INSTRUCTOR: H. Koch, Office Hours MF 3:00-4:00pm, RLM 12.152 ---------- Email: koch@math.utexas.edu, Web: www.ma.utexas.edu/users/koch/ GRADING: Letter grades (A,B,C,D,F) will be given for each | 90 -100 A ------- exam, but number grades (100,99,..,2,1,0) will be | 80 - 89 B kept for averaging. The course grade will be obtained | 70 - 79 C by averaging the scores of the four exams, and of the | 60 - 69 D homework. Each student may replace the grade of any | 0 - 59 F ONE exam by the grade of one of the following exams. HOMEWORK will be assigned every Wednesday and collected one week later in -------- class. Each assignment is graded on a scale from zero to 20. Half the sum of the ten highest scores contributes 6% to the class grade. EXAMS: There will be four 50 minute exams, | Homework 6% ----- covering approx 80% new and 20% old | Exam 1 ( We Sep 24 ) 22% material. Books, calculators, or notes | Exam 2 ( Fr Oct 17 ) 23% are not allowed. No make-up exams will | Exam 3 ( We Nov 12 ) 24% be given. Exam 4 is the FINAL -------> | Exam 4 ( We Dec 10 ) 25%