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December 12, 2022

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Description

This course is an introduction to discrete applied mathematics.

Topics include probability, counting, linear programming, number-theoretic algorithms, sorting, data compression, and error-correcting codes. This is a Communication Intensive in the Major (CI-M) course, and thus includes a writing component.

Course Curriculum

  • Probability Theory Unlimited
  • Pigeonhole Principle Unlimited
  • Probabilistic Method – Van der Waerden’s Theorem Unlimited
  • Chernoff Bounds Unlimited
  • Sequential Choice Unlimited
  • Counting, Coding, Sampling Unlimited
  • Generating Functions Unlimited
  • Linear Programming Unlimited
  • Network Flows Unlimited
  • Sorting Unlimited
  • Median Finding Unlimited
  • Median Finding and QUICKSORT Unlimited
  • Sorting Networks Unlimited
  • Modular Arithmetic and Elementary Algebra Unlimited
  • Cryptography Unlimited
  • Factoring Unlimited
  • FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) Unlimited
  • Shannon’s Noiseless Coding Theorem Unlimited
  • Huffman Codes Unlimited
  • Lempel-Ziv Codes Unlimited
  • Shannon’s Noisy Coding Theorem Unlimited
  • Linear Codes Unlimited

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology