Math 1332
Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics

Course Syllabus

Maple Demo

Assignment	Date Due
1.1: 1, 2, 8, 12	8.27
Voting Methods	8.29
Fairness	9.3
Strategic Voting	9.5
Hamilton’s Method	9.8
Test 1 Review	9.10
Probability	9.17
Odds	9.19
Conditional Probability	9.22
Conditional Probability part 2	9.24
Pascal’s Triangle	9.26
Expectation	9.29
Permutations	10.1
Prime Numbers	10.8
Modular Arithmetic	10.10
Check Digits	10.13
Tournament	10.15
The Caesar Cipher	10.17
Affine Ciphers	10.20
Review for Test 3	10.22
Eulerian Paths	10.29
Graph Coloring	10.31
Prim’s Algorithm	11.3
Travelling Salesman	11.5
Geometry	11.7
Hero’s Formula	11.10
Review for Test 4	11.12
Matrices	11.19
Matrix Multiplication	11.21
Determinants	11.24
Markov Chains	12.1
Fibonacci Sequences (Only for the 1:00 class…the 9:00 class has NO homework!)	12.3

Project	Date Due
Project 1 (Voting and Apportionment)	9.15
Project 2 (Probability)	10.6
Project 3 (Number Theory)	10.27
Project 4 (Graph Theory)	11.17
Project 5 (Matrices)	12.5