CIS 260, Fall, 2008
Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science

Course Information
December 19, 2008

** Solutions for HW9, HW10 and the Final
are available on the Blackboard site **
** https://courseweb.library.upenn.edu **
** Grades have been turned in! **
** Happy Holidays, Happy New Year! **

Coordinates:

Towne 311, MWF, 1-2pm

Instructor:

Jean H. Gallier, GRW 476, 8-4405, jean@cis.upenn.edu

Office Hours:

Mon 4:00-5:30pm, Fri 3:00-4:30pm

Teaching Assistants:

Chris Casinghino, ccasin@seas.upenn.edu
Shilpi Bose, sbose@seas.upenn.edu
Manoj Vaishnav Seethamsetty, smanoj@seas.upenn.edu

Office Hours:

Chris: Friday 3-4pm, Levine/GRW 565

Newsgroup:

upenn.cis.cis260

Textbook:

There is no required textbook for this class.
A draft of a textbook is available online.
Every lecture will correspond to some section(s) of the following book:

Discrete Mathematics, Some Notes (by J. Gallier) (html)

For those who would like to consult other textbooks, I recommend:

Recommended Textbook:

Mathematics --- A Discrete Introduction, Edward R. Scheinderman, Thomson, Brooks/Cole (second edition)

Mathematical Thinking --- Problem Solving and Proofs, John Dangelo and Douglas West, Prentice Hall

Latex Tutorial (Especially Section 11):

html

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A Word of Advice :

Expect to be held to high standards, and conversely! Lecture notes will be available. Please, read the course notes regularly, and start working early on the problems sets. They will be hard! Take pride in your work. Be clear, rigorous, neat, and concise. Preferably, use a good text processor, such as LATEX, to write up your solutions.

Due to the difficulty of the homework problems and in order to give you an opportunity to learn how to collaborate more effectively (I do not mean "copy"), I will allow you to work in small groups. A group consists of AT MOST TWO students.

Only one homework submission per group. All members of a group will get the SAME grade on a homework or a project (please, list all names in a group).

I will give a total of ten homeworks.

It is forbidden to use solutions of problems posted on the internet. If you use resources other than the textbook (or the recommended textbooks) or the class notes, you must cite these references.

Plagiarism Policy

I assume that you are all responsible adults.
Copying old solutions verbatim or blatantly isomorphic solutions are easily detectable.
DO NOT copy solutions from old solution sheets, from books, from solutions posted on the internet, or from friend!
Either credit will be split among the perpetrators, or worse!

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