MAS2216/MAS3216: Enumeration and Combinatorics

Semester 1

[ Timetable | Course Material | Announcements | The Exam | Places of Interest ]

Timetable

• Lectures are on
  • Monday 11am-12noon in Herschel LT2
  • Tuesday 12-1pm in Herschel LT2.
• Problem Classes are in odd weeks and Drop-in Classes are in even weeks on Wednesday 11-12pm in Herschel LT2.

• Computing Sessions, in teaching weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 only:
  • Wednesday 12-1pm Daysh Brae PC
  • Friday 2-3pm Herschel Loch Pond Bank PC Cluster
  • Computer Session in week 3 will be assessed via Maple TA and will form part of the Assignments 1. (This not the same as a CBA.) Students will be instructed which session to attend.
  • Written assignments are to be handed in on Mondays of odd weeks, no later than the lecture from 11-12.
    • Students who have good reason not to hand in an assignment should submit a missed homework form.
    • Assignment questions can be found in the course booklet and the questions to be handed in will be announced by email and are:
    
    

    Hand in on	Questions
    12 noon Monday 12th October,	1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (plus week 3 Computer session)
    12 noon Monday 26th October,	1.6 - 1.13
    12 noon Monday 9th November,	1.14 - 2.2
    12 noon Monday 23rd November,	2.3 - 2.6 (No help will be given with 2.5.)
    12 noon Monday 7th December,	2.7 - 2.9 (No help will be given with 2.7.)

  • Computer Based Assessments (CBAs)
    • CBA's are in Maple TA which requires you to log in with your usual campus userid and password.
    • Due on Mondays of even weeks: CBA Timetable

Course Material

• Course booklet containing notes and exercises.
• Notes on the 6 colour problem not covered in lectures (non-examinable).

• Slides

• Assingnment 1 Worksheet These Maple TA questions must be completed during the week 3 computer practical sesisions. See the worksheet for details of which practical to attend.

• Solutions:
  • Assignment solutions
  • Problem Class Solutions

• Errata

Announcements

These are the emails which have been sent to students during the semester.

• Email messages

The Exam

• Past exam papers are put on the web by the university: enter MAS2216, MAS2203 or MAS223 (or MAS3216, MAS3203 or MAS323) in "Module Code" and then "Go".
• Revision information
• MAS2216/3216 mock exam paper and solutions can be found in the course booklet.

Places of Interest

• Enumeration and Combinatorics
  • The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
  • The Graph Colouring PageThis page is an on-going project to provide graph coloring resources.
  • Graph Theory TutorialsA series of short interactive tutorials introducing the basic concepts of graph theory
  • The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at St. Andrews University: all sorts of historical and biographical information on mathematics and mathematicians
  • School home page

  • ISS Documentation

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  Andrew Duncan
  Last modified: Tue Dec 1 13:35:36 GMT 2009