35111 Discrete Mathematics

6cp; 4hpw

Topics in this subject include: logical connectives, truth tables, tautologies; propositional and predicate logic; proof techniques, induction, analysis of algorithms; set operations, countability, pigeonhole principle; counting, permutations and combinations; linear difference equations; relations, equivalence relations, partitions, partially ordered sets; functions, bijections, inverse functions; equivalent sets, cardinality; graph terminology, matrix representation of graphs; Euler and Hamiltonian cycles; spanning trees; colouring problems; Boolean algebra; switching circuits; Karnaugh maps; finite-state automata; and turing machines.

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus

Fee information

2007 contribution for post-2004 Commonwealth-supported students: $889.75
2007 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,220.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.125
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