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| − | + | Theoretically useful for theoretical computer science majors. | |
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| − | + | You spend about three or four weeks developing a cursory knowledge of symbolic logic. Or rather, your class does as you wisely go get lunch instead because you had learned it all in a week in sixth grade, and moved on to more advanced logic. The rest of the semester follows about the same pattern, learn something simple in a ridiculous amount of time, while you eat lunch and actually learn it all in a weekend. | |
| + | The supposed topics to be covered are listed above, but you don't even get to most of them, and when you do it's a pathetic introduction. If you have any choice in the matter, don't sign up for this class. Really, check out [http://mathworld.wolfram.com MathWorld] instead. | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:47, 22 April 2005
Official Description[edit]
Discrete Mathematics (17-215)
An introduction to discrete models; topics include sets, symoblic logic, relations combinatorics, mathematical induction, probability, vectors and matrices, and graph theory.
Overview[edit]
Theoretically useful for theoretical computer science majors.
What actually happens[edit]
You spend about three or four weeks developing a cursory knowledge of symbolic logic. Or rather, your class does as you wisely go get lunch instead because you had learned it all in a week in sixth grade, and moved on to more advanced logic. The rest of the semester follows about the same pattern, learn something simple in a ridiculous amount of time, while you eat lunch and actually learn it all in a weekend.
The supposed topics to be covered are listed above, but you don't even get to most of them, and when you do it's a pathetic introduction. If you have any choice in the matter, don't sign up for this class. Really, check out MathWorld instead.
