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Cursus wb1b3069
Wiskunde voor CKI
Deel I: Periode 1, 30 augustus 2004 t/m 12 november 2004 (gegeven door Piet Lemmens)
Deel II: Periode 2, 22 november 2004 t/m 24 december 2004 en 3 januari 2005 t/m 28 januari 2005 (gegeven door Lev Beklemishev)
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Programma, Deel II
(Needed parts of the second textbook are given in brackets)
Lecture 1.
Proofs in mathematics, some famous results (Pythagoras, irrationality of square root of two). Sets and basic operations, axiom of separation, Russel paradox. (textbook, Chapter 10)
Lecture 2.
Pairs (ordered, unordered). Cartesian product and disjoint union of sets. Functions and their graphs. (Reader "Functions" until 2.4) Induction on numbers as a method of proof. Formulas for sums of arithmetic and geometric progressions. Sum of squares. (Reader "Inductie")
Lecture 3.
Injective, surjective, bijective functions. Equivalence of sets. Countable sets. Countability of the set of rational numbers.
Lecture 4.
Equivalence of induction and minimum principle. Cartesian product of two countable sets is countable. Uncountability of the set of real numbers (Cantor's theorem). Continuum hypothesis. (Reader "Functions and relations")
Lecture 5.
Binary relations. Properties of binary relations: transitivity, reflexivity, symmetry. Equivalence relations, partitions. Examples: arithmetic modulo n; rational numbers. (Reader 2.5-3.2)
Lecture 6.
Combinatorics. Fundamental principle of counting. Examples: binary strings of length n; subsets of an n-element set; functions from n-element set to m-element set. Permutations. k-element subsets of n-element set. Binomial formula. Pascal triangle. (Chapter 11, oudere versie van het boek)
Lecture 7.
Basic probability. (Chapter 12)
Lectures 8.
Conditional probability and random variables. (Chapter 13-14)