CODE | MAT1411 | ||||||||
TITLE | Discrete Methods | ||||||||
UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
DEPARTMENT | Mathematics | ||||||||
DESCRIPTION | - Permutations, - Combinations, - Partitions of a set, - The inclusion-exclusion principle; - Recurrence relations, - Generating functions, - Partitions of a positive integer. Textbooks: One of - Biggs N.L., Discrete Mathematics, Oxford Science Publications, Clarendon Press, 2nd Edition, 2002. or - Dossey J.A., Otto A.D., Spence L.E. and Eynden C.V., Discrete Mathematics, Addison–Wesley, 5th Edition, 2006. |
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ADDITIONAL NOTES | Leads to: MAT2413 | ||||||||
STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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LECTURER/S | Josef Lauri |
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