MATH 420(a) Combinatorial Methods and Probability Models — A
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Last listed
- 1974–75
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1971–72 to 1974–75; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Combinatorial techniques applied to a variety of optimization problems including inventory control, replacement, discrete dynamic programming, and scheduling. 2 hours lectures.
As printed in the 1971–72 to 1974–75 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
3 posts and comments in 3 threads mention MATH 420, May 2016 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Fall 2019
Looking for bird math 3xx/4xx courses 5 points, 7 comments
“looking for some course load advice. For some context I am heading into 3a, and majoring in Statistics. Here is my sample course load: Stat 330, Stat 333, Stat 341, Math 3xx, math 3xx. …”
u/christoffles: “Math 420”
Fall 2017
GANG GANG 152 points, 29 comments
u/MY_IQ_IS_420: “That's the engineering math textbook right?”
u/coder_catlady: “Yup can confirm, Math 420”
Spring 2016
How to catch up on math 15 points, 15 comments
“Say I want to start taking advanced level courses (245,247,249) this fall, but only know the material of honours level courses (130s). …”
u/FerretDude: “Are you in the advanced chat on Facebook? There was a similiar discussion on this yesterday. I can add you if you want to read it”
u/atomala: “Pls don't, Math 420 is a special place”
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1971–72 to 1974–75, 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.
1971–72 to 1974–75 4 calendars
Combinatorial techniques applied to a variety of optimization problems including inventory control, replacement, discrete dynamic programming, and scheduling. 2 hours lectures.
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.