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Rhea Section for MA375: "Discrete Mathematics"
Professor Walther, Spring 2014
Welcome!
Please write [[Category:MA375Spring2014Walther]] at the bottom of each of your pages,
OTHERWISE NO CREDIT !
Course Info
- Instructor: Prof. Walther
- Office: MATH 746
- email: walther at math dot purdue
- Office hours: WRITE OFFICE HOURS HERE
- Book: WRITE BOOK HERE
Important Links
Course Web Page
Discussion
- Discussion of Homework Problems (Just keep adding to it!)
- Spring 2014 Study Group Meetings
Other Links
Your turn! Student Projects
As per the syllabus, 5% of your grade will be based on contributing a Rhea page on a subject related to the course. To pick a subject, simply write your name next to "names". No more than 5 students per topic! Note: don't try to erase other people from a topic. I will know about it.
If you have an idea for another topic that you like, just add a new row and fill it.
Your page will be graded based on content as well as interactions with other people (page views, comments/questions on the page, etc.). The number of links to other courses and subjects will also be taken into account: the more the merrier! Please do not simply copy the lecture notes. What I am looking for is a story in you OWN words, not smart comments by an expert. I want to see you digested the topic, not that you can quote other people on it.
Do not plagiarize. Read Rhea's copyright policy before proceeding.
For some lovely contributions, see Honors Project 2011 by Daniel Lee
Deadline: Sunday before dead week (May 4, 2014)
| Topic Number | Topic Description | Team Members |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prime numbers in arithmetic progressions | Names: |
| 2 | Cardinals versus ordinals: size and counting | Names: |
| 3 | P=NP and complexity of algorithms | Names: Cameron Young, Qingshi Zhou, Jason Kohl |
| 4 | Unique factorization: how special are the integers? | Names: Brooke Wilke, Jerad Stump, Rachel Aker, Brandon Myers, Kayla Kerker |
| 5 | Markov chains: what and how? | Names: Tianyi Zhang, Sui Fang, Christopher Peralta |
| 6 | Cantor's "continuum hypothesis", what is it about? | Names: Chao Zhao |
| 7 | Flows and cuts in graphs: Menger's theorem | Names: |
| 8 | How do Hamming codes correct errors? | Names: Michael Hockerman |
| 9 | Coloring regular polygons: the theorems of Burnside and Polya | Names: |
| 10 | Simplicial complexes: higher dimensional versions of graphs | Names: |
| 11 | Generalizing Kuratowski's theorem: drawing graphs on a doughnut | Names: |
| 12 | What exactly is "1"? Defining integers from scratch. | Names: Devi Kovi |
| 13 | How many lines meet 3 given lines in 3-space? | Names: |
