MA0301 Elementary discrete mathematics – Spring 2023

Welcome to the course Elementary Discrete Mathematics. It addresses primarily students in computer science. The central aim is to present an introduction to the basic mathematical foundations of computer science.

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* 30.08.23: Solutions for the continuation exam can be found here. Please let me know if you find any errors/mistakes by sending an email to mads.sandoy at ntnu.no.

* 10.06.23: Solutions for the exam can be found here. Please let me know if you find any errors/mistakes by sending an email to mads.sandoy at ntnu.no.

* 07.06.23: This is some information related to the exam based on some (frequently asked) questions I have received by email the last couple of days. Note that the exam will be in "bokmål" and "nynorsk". By request, a "norsk-engelsk" list of terms has been added to the exam. The topics "boolean algebra" and "the binomial theorem" are not on the curriculum this year. (They have not been covered in the lectures nor the exercises, and "boolean algebra" is not covered in the textbook.) The following link has some useful information to review on how to submit handwritten paper for the exam: https://i.ntnu.no/wiki/-/wiki/English/School+exam+with+hand+drawings+-+for+students

* 05.06.23: Because of the high demand, for the office hours today I am in room 656 on the 6th floor of Sentralbygg II.

* 31.05.23: In case anyone wants to ask questions regarding old exam problems or the curriculum more generally, I have office hours between 10:15 and 12:00 on Friday 02.06, and between 13:15 and 15:00 on Monday 05.06. My office is room 826 on the 8th floor in Sentralbygg II. You can also send me an email and schedule a Zoom meeting if that is preferred.

* 26.05.23: In problem set 2 there was a consistent error with respect to quantifier scope in problems 2 and 3. A corrected version explaining where the mistakes were has been uploaded.

* 28.04.23: In preparing for the exam, it is recommended that one looks at the exams from 2019 and earlier. Since one had access to e.g. the textbook during the home exams in 2020-2022, the exercises are generally both more difficult and somewhat different than those from 2019 and before.

* 26.04.23: NB! The lecture today is cancelled due to illness. As a consequence, the last lecture of the semester will be next Wednesday, i.e. Wednesday the 3rd of May.

* 26.04.23: The third reference group meeting will be held within the next couple of weeks. Please send your feedback to student members of the reference group. You can find their email adresses on Blackboard. Minutes/summaries of the previous two meetings can also be found there.

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* 17.04.23: Exercise set 12 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Tuesday 25.4.

* 17.04.23: For the final few lectures we will be reviewing parts of the curriculum and going through the solutions to an old exam. Please send suggestions for topics or problems you would like to see covered to mads.sandoy at ntun.no.

* 12.04.23: The first exercise of Exercise set 11 seems to be missing in some editions of the book, so the exercise text has been added to the sheet. Apologies to anyone who has been affected by this.

* 05.04.23: Exercise set 11 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Tuesday 18.4.

* 31.03.23: The exercise session this morning 8.15 - 10.00 is canceled, apologies for the late notice.

* 24.03.23: Exercise set 10 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Tuesday 4.4. Note that due to the easter break, grading for this set will be delayed.

* 22.03.23: A recording of the lecture from today is now available on Blackboard. Note that to follow tomorrow's lecture, you only need to watch the second part.

* 20.03.23: The lecture Wednesday 22.03 will be recorded and made available on Blackboard because of an exam the same day many of the students in MA0301 will be taking.

* 16.03.23: Exercise set 9 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Monday 27.3.

* 15.03.23: The second meeting of the reference group will be Thursday 16.03. The members and email adresses of the reference group can be found on Blackboard (not listed here because of GDPR).

* 08.03.23: Exercise set 8 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Monday 20.3.

* 03.03.23: Minutes from the first reference group meeting are now available on Blackboard.

* 02.03.23: Exercise set 7 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Monday 13.3.

* 28.02.23 : Exercise 7 in set 6 has been made optional, as summation notation was not defined in last week's lectures.

* 23.02.23: The lecture notes for today's lecture contain a different argument for parts of proposition 105. This corrects a possible gap in the proof given in the lecture.

* 21.02.23: Exercise set 6 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Monday 6.3.

* 15.02.23: There was a typo in exercise set 4, exercise 4 c). It should have referenced exercise 2 c) and not exercise 1 a). If you have already solved this exercise with respect to the relation defined in exercise 1 this will also be accepted.

* 15.02.23: The first meeting of the reference group will be Thursday 16.02. The members and email adresses of the reference group can be found on Blackboard (not listed here because of GDPR).

* 13.02.23: Exercise set 5 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Monday 27.2.

* 10.02.23: Exercise set 4 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Monday 20.2. Starting next week, we aim to publish the exercise sets at the beginning of the week, so that you can follow the lectures with the exercises.

* 03.02.23: Exercise set 3 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Monday 13.2. The solutions to exercise set 1 have also been made available here. Solutions are automatically published on ovsys 12:00 the day after the deadline, so if you cannot find them here have a look there.

* 01.02.23: There is now a discussion forum for the course. There is also a link at the top of this page.

* 29.01.23: Exercise set 2 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Tuesday 7.2. Note that this week's exercise set is in the format of a Jupyter Notebook and contains programming tasks. If you do not have support for Jupyter Notebooks on your computer, you can upload the exercise set to the Jupyter Hub hosted by NTNU and solve it in the browser.

* 23.01.23: Groups are available here. See course information for time and place of the sessions. 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, which you can do here. If you happen to be without an assigned group, please contact Fredrik.

* 19.01.23: Exercise set 1 is now available. The deadline for handing it in is Monday 30.1.

* 19.01.23: The lecture today Thursday 19.01 between 12:15 - 14:00 is canceled because of illness. Apologies for the short notice.

* 17.01.23: Lecture notes are now available on Blackboard.

* 05.01.23: Nb! In contrast to what has been previously announced, the first lecture in MA0301 will be held on Thursday 12.01 in H3 in the main building between 12:15 and 14:00.

Note that there will be only one lecture next week.

Nb! I motsetning til hva som tidligere er annonsert, vil første forelesning i MA0301 finne sted på torsdag 12.01 i H3 i Hovedbygningen mellom kl. 12:15 og 14:00.

Merk også at det blir kun én forelesning neste uke.

* 04.01.23: ~~The first lecture of the course will be on Wednesday the 11th of January in S5 in SBII between 10:15 and 12:00.~~

* 04.01.23: This page is under construction.