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CO 239AAn Introduction to Combinatorics

Faculty
Mathematics
Offered
Fall
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1978–79

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1976–77 to 1978–79; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Existence and non-existence. Enumeration. Combinations and Permutations. Inclusion-exclusion principle. Linear equations with unit coefficients. Recursion. Generating functions. Chromatic polynomials. Applications to geometry designs. Recommended for students wishing an introduction to discrete mathematics. C&O 0239b W,S 2C2T 05 An Introduction to Optimization Convex sets. Linear programming. Directed graphs. Applications of Boolean Algebra to Combinatorical Circuits. Probability; Markov chains; random walks. Theory of Games.

As printed in the 1976–77 to 1978–79 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: Math 124a/b or 134a/b

Also offered at St. Jerome’s College in Winter Term.

Prereq: Math 124a/b or 134a/b

Also offered at St. Jerome’s College in Fall Term.

Check it elsewhere

    In the scanned calendars

    How it read in each calendar from 1976–77 to 1978–79, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

    1976–77 to 1978–79 2 calendars

    Existence and non-existence. Enumeration.

    Combinations and Permutations. Inclusion-exclusion

    principle. Linear equations with unit coefficients.

    Recursion. Generating functions. Chromatic

    polynomials. Applications to geometry designs. Recommended for students wishing an introduction

    to discrete mathematics.

    C&O 0239b W,S 2C2T 05

    An Introduction to Optimization

    Convex sets. Linear programming. Directed graphs. Applications of Boolean Algebra to Combinatorical Circuits. Probability; Markov chains; random walks. Theory of Games.

    Prereq: Math 124a/b or 134a/b

    Also offered at St. Jerome’s College in Winter Term.

    Prereq: Math 124a/b or 134a/b

    Also offered at St. Jerome’s College in Fall Term.

    Offered Fall · 2 class, 2 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit