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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Menu
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Syllabus
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Schedule
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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.
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- Supplementary Texts
- We will be reading selections from the following, as described in the Schedule:
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Plato's
'Meno'
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Jaeger, Paideia: the Ideals of Greek Culture, Vol 2, Chapter 7
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Jaeger, Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, Chapter I and Chapter XV
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Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy,
Vol. VI: Aristotle, an Encounter, Chapters 8-9 and Chapter 10
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MacLane,
Mathematics: Form and Function
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Heath, A Manual of Greek Mathematics
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Chapter 3: Pythagorean Arithmetic
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Chapter 5: Pythagorean Geometry
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Chapter 9: Euclid's Elements
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Wells,
Differential and Complex Geometry: Origins, Abstractions and Embeddings
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Gilson, The Unity of Philosophical Experience
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Part 2, Chapters V-VIII: The Cartesian Experiment
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Beck, The Method of Descartes
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Janiak, Newtnon's Philosophical Writings
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Introduction
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Apostol,
Introduction to Analytic Number Theory