MA0301 Elementary discrete mathematics – Spring 2021

Course information

Lecturer

Jiaxin Pan
Email: jiaxin [dot] pan [at] ntnu [dot] no
Office Hours: Mondays, 14:15 - 15:45

Teaching assistants

Adrian Celestino
Email: adrian [dot] celestino [at] ntnu [dot] no

Kelsey Moran
Email: kelsey [dot] n [dot] moran [at] ntnu [dot] no

Online teaching and consultant (1.1.2021) According to the current rule, our lectures, exercise sessions and office hours will be online.

Lectures

Day Time Room Exceptions
Monday 12:15-14:00 Online
Wednesday 10:15-12:00 Online

Exercise sessions

There will be weekly exercise sessions starting in week 3 (18-22 January). For more information, see Exercises.

Group Day Time Room
1 Monday 16:15-18:00
2 Tuesday 08:15-10:00
3 Wednesday 14:15-16:00
4 Wednesday 16:15-18:00
5 Friday 14:15-16:00

Groups are available here. You have priority to the group you are assigned to, but you can attend which and how many groups as you want. Deliver your homework sheet to the group you are assigned to. If you happen to be without an assigned group, please contact Adrian Celestino (adrian [dot] celestino [at] ntnu [dot] no). If you happen to have too few passed exercises at some point, try to find a solution with your assistant. If you do not find any solution, please contact Adrian.

Books

Harry Lewis, Rachel Zax
Essential Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691179298 ISBN-13: 978-0691179292
(We will only use this Lewis-Zax book for this semester.)

and
Ralph P. Grimaldi
Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics
5. edition
ISBN 0-321-21103-0
(We will try not to use this book for this time.)

Curriculum

See the lecture plan here as well as the wikipendium page here

Exam

See the official exam page for information.

2021-01-11, Jiaxin Pan