Month: January 2022

Topics

• Course Information & Syllabus (download from Files)
• Navigating the online platforms/resources:
  • Blackboard
  • OpenLab
    • this site and our course profile (join!)
• Textbooks (also available via “Help & Resources”)
  • Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (8th edition) by Kenneth H. Rosen (available on reserve in the CityTech library)
  • see also this free online textbook: Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction by Oscar Levin
• What are we going to cover in this course? What is discrete math?
• Start on the first topic: propositional logic
  • propositions and connectives

To-Do During/After Class

• Join the OpenLab group (via the course profile)
• Start reading the textbook(s) and slides:
  • Chapter0 Slides (“What is Discrete Mathematics?”) & Chapter1 (Part 1) Slides   
  • Rosen: Section 1.1 (“Propositional Logic”)
  • Levin: Section 0.1 (“What is Discrete Mathematics?”), Section 0.2 (“Mathematical Statements”) & Section 3.1 (“Propositional Logic”)