CS 514, Mathematics for Computer Science

Autumn 2012 - 2013

Instructors

Purandar Bhaduri, ext: 2360 (email: pbhaduri)

Ashish Anand, ext: 2374 (email: anand.ashish)

Teaching Assistants

1. Pravati Swain (email: pravati)

2. Madhusudan Paul (email: madhusudan)

3. Debjani Saha (email: debjani)

4. Gargi Priyadarshini (email: p.gargi)

TA Assignment for Homework Problems

Textbooks

1. Mathematics for Computer Science by Eric Lehman, F Thomson Leighton and Albert R Meyer, 2011. This will be the main textbook for the Discrete Mathematics part of the course. Class material from the MIT course based on the book.

2.   (Tentative) Basic Probability Theory, Robert B. Ash, Dover Publications, 2008.

3.   (Tentative) Introduction to Linear Algebra, Gilbert Strang, Wellesley Cambridge Press, 2009.

Evaluation

Assignments 10%

Quizzes                                            10%

Midsem                                            30%

Endsem 50%

Information about the mid-semester exam

Midsem Solutions

Homework Policy

Late assignments would be penalised by deducting (10 × no. of days of lateness) % of the marks. Any form of copying will incur zero marks.

Homeworks

Please note that all homework problems refer to the May 2011 edition of the textbook!

1. HW # 1 (Due 7 August, Tuesday): Problems 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 from the text (pp 21 - 22).

2. HW # 2 (Due 14 August, Tuesday): Problems 2.4 and 2.8.

3. HW # 3 (Due 21 August, Tuesday): Problems 3.14, 3.16, 4.13 and 5.8.

4. HW # 4 (Due 28 August, Tuesday): Problems 6.6, 6.17 and 6.23.

5. HW # 5 (Due 19 October, Friday): Problems 8.11, 8.17 and 8.18.

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