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Week Date Day Lecture Topic Available Due
1 Aug
26
M   Recitation 1 (Latex)    
Aug
27
T 1 (VA) Pancakes with a Problem
Lecture slides [PPT, PDF]
Notes on Pancakes
   
Aug
29
R 2 (VA) Inductive Reasoning: One Step at a Time
Lecture slides [PPT, PDF]
Notes on Induction: 1, 2, 3.
Notes on common induction mistakes
Hwk1  
2 Sep
2
M NO CLASSES
Sep
3
T 3 (VA) Proofs
Lecture slides [PPT, PDF]
Notes on proof methods
Quiz 1
Sep
5
R 4 (AP) Counting-I
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on Counting
Hwk2 Hwk1
3 Sep
09
M   Recitation 2 (Counting I)    
Sep
10
T 5 (AP) Counting II
Lecture slides [PDF]
Quiz 2
   
Sep
12
R 6 (AP) Probability- I
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on probability
Hwk3 Hwk2
4 Sep
16
M   Recitation 3 (Counting)    
Sep
17
T 7 (AP) Probability- II
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on random variables
Quiz 3
   
Sep
19
R 8 (VA) Graphs-I [PPT, PDF]
Notes on Graphs I
Hwk4
Hwk3
5 Sep
23
M   Recitation 4 (Probability)    
Sep
25
T 9 (VA) Graphs-II [PPT, PDF ]

Quiz 4
   
Sep
26
R 10 (VA) Graphs-III [PPT, PDF
Notes on Graphs II]
  Hwk4
6 Sep
30
M   Recitation 5 (midterm)    
Oct
01
T TEST 1
Practice Test [Solutions]
Midterm 1 [Solutions]
Oct
03
R 11 (AP) Time Complexity
Lecture slides [PDF]
Hwk5
7 Oct
07
M   Recitation 6    
Oct
08
T 12 (AP) Cake cutting
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on cake cutting
Fun reading on cake cutting
Quiz 5
   
Oct
10
R 13 (AP) Reductions
Lecture slides [PDF]
451 Notes
Hwk6 Hwk5
8 Oct
14
M   Recitation 7: Reductions    
Oct
15
T 14 (AP) P vs. NP
Lecture slides [PDF]
451 Notes
Quiz 6
   
Oct
17
R 15 (AP) Computational social choice
Lecture slides [PDF]
Fun reading on computational social choice
Hwk7 Hwk6
9 Oct
21
M   Recitation 8 NP    
Oct
22
T 16 (AP) Approximation algorithms
Lecture slides [PDF]
Quiz 7
   
Oct
24
R 17 (AP) Online algorithms
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on online algorithms
Hwk8 Hwk7
10 Oct
28
M   Recitation 9 (Voting and Approximation)    
Oct
29
T 18 (AP) Interactive proofs
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on interactive proofs
Quiz 8
   
Oct
31
R 19 (AP) Learning theory
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on learning theory (ch. 7+8)
  Hwk8
11 Nov
04
M   Recitation 10    
Nov
05
T TEST 2
Practice Test 2 [Solutions]
Midterm 2 [Solutions]
Nov
07
R 20 (VA) Cantor's Legacy: Infinity And Diagonalization
Lecture slides [PDF]
Hwk9
12 Nov
11
M   Recitation 11    
Nov
12
T 21 (VA) Finite State Automata
Lecture slides [PDF]
Quiz 9
   
Nov
14
R 22 (VA) Turing and Church's Legacy: The Limits of Computation [PDF] Hw10 Hwk9
13 Nov
18
M   Recitation 12    
Nov
19
T 23 (VA) Number theory
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on Number theory
Quiz 10
   
Nov
21
R 24 (VA) RSA
Lecture slides [PDF]
   
14 Nov
25
M   Recitation 13    
Nov
26
T 25 (VA) Group Theory
Lecture slides [PDF]
Notes on group theory
Hw11 Hwk10
Nov
28
R No Classes
15 Dec
02
M   Recitation 14    
Dec
03
T 26 (VA) Fields, Polynomials
Lecture notes [PDF]
Notes on polynomials, error correction
Quiz 11
Dec
05
R 27 (VA) Random Walks
Lecture slides [PDF]
  Hwk11
  Dec
10
T Final Exam
Practice Test
Solutions
[Quizzes]
 8:30am - 11:30am PH 100

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