ES 214 | Aug-Nov 2023

ES214. Discrete Mathematics

August — November 2023

(co-instructor with Prof. Anirban Dasgupta.)

About the Course

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Target Audience

You will find this course interesting if:

• you think counting the number of ways in which you can complete your graduation requirements is a fun problem to think about,
• you enjoy logic puzzles like this one or probability puzzles like this one, or
• you like box-stacking challenges, or
• you are enrolled in a program for which this course is in the core.

Prerequisites

This course is self-contained and involves no pre-requisites.

References

1. Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth Rosen
2. Open Textbook on Discrete Mathematics
3. Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook by Jay Cummings
4. Playing with Discrete Math by Kyle Burke and Craig Tennenhouse
5. Online Course (with lecture videos): Math 4190, Summer I 2019

Timings and Venue

Venue: 1/101

Lectures:

• Tuesdays 3:30PM — 5:00PM
• Wednesdays 11:30 — 12:50

Tutorials

• Thursdays 3:30PM — 5:00PM

TAs and Office hours

Office Hours: By email.

TAs: TBA

Evaluation policy

• Each of the three exams account for 20% of the grade.
• Each of the eleven tutorials will have a quiz worth 5 points. The total number of points you can earn through quizzes is capped at 40, and accounts for 40% of the grade.
• There will be weekly assignments that are not graded but are recommended for practice.

Register

• For IITGN students, (pre-)register through IMS as usual.
• All quizzes and exams will be on Gradescope.
• If you are not from IITGN and are interested in taking up the course, then please send us an email.

Lectures

Assignments

These are the weekly practice problems. There is no need to submit these assignments, but please make sure to get feedback from your peers, instructors and TAs as you go along.

Quizzes

Exams