MATH 2001-003, Introduction to Discrete Mathematics

Basic Info

MATH 2001, Section 3, Spring 2020
Instructor: Alexander Nita
Venue: MWF 12-1pm, ECCR 108
Office: MATH 140
Email: alexander.nita@colorado.edu
Office Hours: Wed/Fri 1-2, Th 5-6
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  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Homework

  • Lecture Notes
    Numbers.pdf
    Numbers.tex
    RealNumbers.pdf
    RealNumbers.tex
    Plato's Meno
    Aristotle 1, 2
    Aristotle 3
    Descartes 1
    Galileo
    Unique Prime Factorization, Greatest Common Divisor, Division Algorithm and Euclidean Algorithm
    Text
    The Book of Proof, Richard Hammack, available here.
    Supplementary Texts
    We will be reading selections from the following, as described in the Schedule:
  • Plato's 'Meno'
  • Jaeger, Paideia: the Ideals of Greek Culture, Vol 2, Chapter 7
  • Jaeger, Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, Chapter I and Chapter XV
  • Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. VI: Aristotle, an Encounter, Chapters 8-9 and Chapter 10
  • MacLane, Mathematics: Form and Function
  • Heath, A Manual of Greek Mathematics
    Chapter 3: Pythagorean Arithmetic
    Chapter 5: Pythagorean Geometry
    Chapter 9: Euclid's Elements
  • Wells, Differential and Complex Geometry: Origins, Abstractions and Embeddings
  • Gilson, The Unity of Philosophical Experience
    Part 2, Chapters V-VIII: The Cartesian Experiment
  • Beck, The Method of Descartes
  • Janiak, Newtnon's Philosophical Writings
    Introduction
  • Apostol, Introduction to Analytic Number Theory