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Conclusion ## Introduction In this document, we explore various topics under discrete mathematics. ## Concepts ### Sets - Definition - Notation - Operations ### Functions - Definition - Types of functions - Examples ### Relations - Definition - Properties | Concept | Description | |-----------|-----------------------------------| | Set | A collection of distinct objects | | Function | A relation from a set to itself | | Relation | A connection between two sets | ## Applications The concepts of discrete mathematics can be applied in various fields, including computer science, information technology, and combinatorial design. ## Conclusion Discrete mathematics provides fundamental knowledge required for numerous applications in modern science and technology. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of the Attached Visual Content #### 1. Localization and Attribution: - **Image Identification and Numbering:** - This is a single image and is referred to as **Image 1**. #### 2. Object Detection and Classification: - **Image 1:** - The image depicts a forest scene with several birch trees. - **Key Features of Detected Objects:** - **Trees:** The trees are characterized by their tall, slender trunks with distinctive white bark and dark horizontal markings typical of birches. - **Forest Ground:** There are grassy elements and what appears to be a forest floor with various green and brown patches. #### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Scene Description:** - The image is an artistic painting capturing a serene forest with several birch trees. - There is no human activity depicted; the scene is calm, evoking a sense of peace and natural beauty. #### 4. Text Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Detected Text:** - Top: None - Bottom: - "A Cool Brisk Walk" (Title) - "Through Discrete Mathematics" (Subtitle) - "Version 2.2.1" (Version Information) - "Stephen Davies, Ph.D." (Author Name) - **Text Significance:** - The text suggests that this image is probably the cover of a book titled "A Cool Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics" by Stephen Davies, Ph.D. The version number indicates it is version 2.2.1, signifying a possibly updated or revised edition. #### 8. Color Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Color Composition:** - The dominant colors are various shades of green (foliage), white, and light brown (birch trunks), and a soft blue (background). - **Color Impact:** - The colors create a cool, calming effect, reflecting the serene mood of a walk through a quiet forest. #### 9. Perspective and Composition: - **Image 1:** - **Perspective:** - The image appears to be from a standing eye-level perspective, giving a natural view as one would see while walking through the forest. - **Composition:** - The birch trees are placed prominently in the foreground, with the background filled with dense foliage. The positioning of the text at the bottom complements the overall composition without distracting from the artwork. #### 10. Contextual Significance: - **Image 1:** - **Overall Document Context:** - As a book cover, the image serves the purpose of drawing the reader's attention. The serene and inviting forest scene combined with the title implies a gentle, inviting approach to the subject of discrete mathematics. The image successfully combines art with educational content, aiming to make the subject of discrete mathematics more appealing and accessible to the reader. The natural, calming scenery juxtaposed with an academic theme may suggest that the book intends to provide a refreshing perspective on a typically challenging subject. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: Copyright © 2023 Stephen Davies. ## University of Mary Washington **Department of Computer Science** James Farmer Hall 1301 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 --- Permission is granted to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The accompanying materials at [www.allthemath.org](http://www.allthemath.org) are also under this license. If you are interested in distributing a commercial version of this work, please contact the author at [stephen@umw.edu](mailto:stephen@umw.edu). The LaTeX source for this book is available from: [https://github.com/divilian/cool-brisk-walk](https://github.com/divilian/cool-brisk-walk). --- Cover art copyright © 2014 Elizabeth M. Davies. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # Contents at a glance ## Contents at a glance - **Contents at a glance** …… i - **Preface** …… iii - **Acknowledgements** …… v 1. **Meetup at the trailhead** …… 1 2. **Sets** …… 7 3. **Relations** …… 35 4. **Probability** …… 59 5. **Structures** …… 85 6. **Counting** …… 141 7. **Numbers** …… 165 8. **Logic** …… 197 9. **Proof** …… 223 Also be sure to check out the forever-free-and-open-source instructional videos that accompany this series at [www.allthemath.org](http://www.allthemath.org)! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: # PREFACE This material, what it means, and how it impacts their discipline. Becoming an expert theorem prover is not required, nor is deriving closed-form expressions for the sizes of trees with esoteric properties. Basic fluency with each topic area, and an intuition about when it can be applied, is the proper aim for most of those who would go forward and build tomorrow's technology. To this end, the book in your hands is a quick guided tour of introductory-level discrete mathematics. It's like a cool, brisk walk through a pretty forest. I point out the notable features of the landscape and try to instill a sense of appreciation and even of awe. I want the reader to get a feel for the lay of the land and a little exercise. If the student acquires the requisite vocabulary, gets some practice playing with the toys, and learns to start thinking in terms of the concepts here described, I will count it as a success. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # Acknowledgements A hearty thanks to Karen Anewalt, Crystal Burson, Prafulla Giri, Tayyar Hussain, Jennifer Magee, Veena Ravishankar, Jacob Shtabnoy, and a decade's worth of awesome UMW Computer Science students for their many suggestions and corrections to make this text better! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 8 Context: I'm unable to view images. Please provide the text in Markdown format for me to assist you. Image Analysis: ### Image Analysis: #### 1. **Localization and Attribution:** - **Image Number**: Image 1 #### 2. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Detected Objects**: The image includes a cup of coffee on a saucer, three coffee beans, and some sparkles implying aroma or steam. - **Object Classification**: - **Cup of Coffee**: A central object, likely made of ceramic and filled with coffee. - **Coffee Beans**: Close to the cup, classifiable as roasted beans. - **Sparkles/Steam**: Above the cup, representing the aroma of the hot coffee. #### 3. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Scene Description**: This image displays a cup of coffee on a saucer with coffee beans around it. Decorative sparkles or steam lines are depicted rising above the coffee, suggesting freshness or warmth. - **Activities**: No human activities observed; the focus is on the presentation of the coffee. #### 4. **Text Analysis:** - No text detected in this image. #### 5. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - Not applicable; no diagrams or charts are present in the image. #### 6. **Product Analysis:** - **Product**: A cup of coffee. - **Main Features**: - A white/neutral-colored ceramic cup and saucer filled with coffee. - Roasted coffee beans placed nearby, suggesting the quality or type of coffee used. - **Materials**: Ceramic cup and saucer, roasted coffee beans. - **Colors**: Predominantly brown (coffee and beans) and white (cup and saucer). #### 7. **Anomaly Detection:** - No anomalies detected; the elements are consistent with a typical coffee presentation. #### 8. **Color Analysis**: - **Dominant Colors**: Brown and white. - **Brown**: Evokes warmth and richness, associated with coffee and coffee beans. - **White**: Clean and neutral, ensures focus on the coffee. #### 9. **Perspective and Composition**: - **Perspective**: Bird’s eye view. - **Composition**: - Centralized with the cup of coffee as the main focus. - Balanced by the placement of coffee beans around the cup. - Decorative elements like sparkles/steam give a visual cue towards the coffee's freshness or aroma. #### 10. **Contextual Significance**: - The image can be used in contexts such as coffee advertisements, cafe menus, or articles about coffee. It emphasizes the quality and appeal of the coffee through its visual presentation. #### 11. **Metadata Analysis**: - No metadata available for analysis. #### 12. **Graph and Trend Analysis**: - Not applicable; no graphs or trends are present in the image. #### 13. **Graph Numbers**: - Not applicable; no data points or graph numbers are present in the image. ### Additional Aspects: #### **Ablaufprozesse (Process Flows)**: - Not applicable; no process flows depicted. #### **Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions)**: - Not applicable; no processes described. #### **Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations)**: - Not applicable; no type designations specified. #### **Trend and Interpretation**: - Not applicable; no trends depicted. #### **Tables**: - Not applicable; no tables included. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # 1.1 EXERCISES 1. **What’s the opposite of concrete?** Abstract. 2. **What’s the opposite of discrete?** Continuous. 3. **Consider a quantity of water in a glass. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Concrete, since it’s a real entity you can experience with the senses. Continuous, since it could be any number of ounces (or liters, or tablespoons, or whatever). The amount of water certainly doesn’t have to be an integer. (Food for thought: since all matter is ultimately comprised of atoms, are even substances like water discrete?) 4. **Consider the number 27. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Abstract, since you can’t see or touch or smell “twenty-seven.” Probably discrete, since it’s an integer, and when we think of whole numbers we think “discrete.” (Food for thought: in real life, how would you know whether I meant the integer “27” or the decimal number “27.00”? And does it matter?) Clearly it’s discrete. Abstract vs. concrete, though, is a little tricky. If we’re talking about the actual transistor and capacitor that’s physically present in the hardware, holding a thing in charge in some little chip, then it’s concrete. But if we’re talking about the value “1” that is conceptually part of the computer’s currently executing state, then it’s really abstract just like 27 was. In this book, we’ll always be talking about bits in this second, abstract sense. 5. **Consider a bit in a computer’s memory. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. 6. **If math isn’t just about numbers, what else is it about?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: I'm unable to assist with that. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of Attached Visual Content #### Image Identification and Localization - **Image 1**: Single image provided in the content. #### Object Detection and Classification - **Image 1**: - **Objects Detected**: - Female figurine resembling a prehistoric representation. - The figurine appears to be crafted from a terracotta or similar clay-like material. - **Classification**: - The object is classified under 'Artifacts' and 'Historical Objects'. - **Key Features**: - The sculpture has exaggerated female attributes including a prominent chest and belly, which are indicative of fertility symbols. - The face does not have detailed features, implying focus on bodily form rather than facial details. - The object seems ancient, slightly weathered, suggesting it to be an archaeological artifact. #### Scene and Activity Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Scene Description**: - The image shows a close-up of a single artifact against a neutral background, possibly for the purpose of highlighting the artifact itself. - **Activities**: - No dynamic activity; the object is displayed presumably for appreciation or study. #### Perspective and Composition - **Image 1**: - **Perspective**: - The image is taken from a straight-on, eye-level view, ensuring the object is the primary focus. - Close-up perspective to capture detailed features. - **Composition**: - The object is centrally placed, drawing immediate attention. - The background is plain and undistracting, enhancing the focus on the artifact itself. #### Contextual Significance - **Image 1**: - **Overall Contribution**: - The artifact could be used in educational, historical, or museum contexts to study prehistoric cultures, their art, and societal values. - As a fertility symbol, it contributes to understanding sociocultural aspects of ancient civilizations. #### Color Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Dominant Colors**: - Shades of brown and beige are dominant, corresponding to the natural materials like terracotta. - **Impact on Perception**: - The earthy tones evoke a sense of antiquity and authenticity, reinforcing the perception of it being an ancient artifact. ### Conclusion The provided image is of a terracotta or similar material female figurine, likely of prehistoric origin. It is depicted with a neutral background to focus on its significant features, in particular, the enhanced bodily features indicative of fertility representations. The composition and color tones effectively highlight its historical and cultural importance. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: # Chapter 2 ## Sets The place from which we'll start our walk is a body of mathematics called "set theory." Set theory has an amazing property: it's so simple and applicable that almost all the rest of mathematics can be based on it! This is all the more remarkable because set theory itself came along pretty late in the game (as things go) — it was singlehandedly invented by one brilliant man, Georg Cantor, in the 1870s. That may seem like a long time ago, but consider that by the time Cantor was born, mankind had already accumulated an immense wealth of mathematical knowledge: everything from geometry to algebra to calculus to prime numbers. Set theory was so elegant and universal, though, that after it was invented, nearly everything in math was redefined from the ground up to be couched in the language of sets. It turns out that this simple tool is an amazingly powerful way to reason about mathematical concepts of all flavors. Everything else in this book stands on set theory as a foundation. Cantor, by the way, went insane as he tried to extend set theory to fully encompass the concept of infinity. Don't let that happen to you! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 19 Context: # 2.2. DEFINING SETS Note that two sets with different intensions might nevertheless have the same extension. Suppose \( O \) is "the set of all people over 25 years old" and \( R \) is "the set of all people who wear wedding rings." If our \( \Omega \) is the Davies family, then \( O \) and \( R \) have the same extension (namely, Mom and Dad). They have different intensions, though; conceptually speaking, they're describing different things. One could imagine a world in which older people don't all wear wedding rings, or one in which some younger people do. Within the domain of discourse of the Davies family, however, the extensions happen to coincide. **Fact:** We say two sets are equal if they have the same extension. This might seem unfair to intentionality, but that’s the way it is. So it is totally legit to write: \[ O = R \] since by the definition of set equality, they are in fact equal. I thought this was weird at first, but it’s really no weirder than saying "the number of years the Civil War lasted = Brett Favre’s jersey number when he played for the Packers." The things on the left and right side of that equals sign refer conceptually to two very different things, but that doesn’t stop them from both having the value 4, and thus being equal. By the way, we sometimes use the curly brace notation in combination with a colon to define a set intentionally. Consider this: \[ M = \{ k : k \text{ is between 1 and 20, and a multiple of } 3 \} \] When you reach a colon, pronounce it as “such that.” So this says "M is the set of all numbers \( k \) such that \( k \) is between 1 and 20, and a multiple of 3." (There's nothing special about \( k \), here; I could have picked any letter.) This is an intensional definition since we haven’t listed the specific numbers in the set, but rather given a rule for finding them. Another way to specify this set would be to write: \[ M = \{ 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 \} \] which is an extensional definition of the same set. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 21 Context: 2.4 Sets are not arrays ======================= If you’ve done some computer programming, you might see a resemblance between sets and the collections of items often used in a program: arrays, perhaps, or linked lists. To be sure, there are some similarities. But there are also some very important differences, which must not be overlooked: - **No order.** As previously mentioned, there is no order to the members of a set. “{Mom, Dad}” is the same set as “{Dad, Mom}”. In a computer program, of course, most arrays or lists have first, second, and last elements, and an index number assigned to each. - **No duplicates.** Suppose \( M \) is the set of all males. What would it possibly mean to say \( M = \{T.J., T.J., Johnny\} \)? Would that mean that “T.J. is twice the man that Johnny is”? This is obviously nonsensical. The set \( M \) is based on a property: maleness. Each element of \( M \) is either male, or it isn't. It can't be “male three times.” Again, in an array or linked list, you could certainly have more than one copy of the same item in different positions. - **Infinite sets.** 'Nuff said. I’ve never seen an array with infinitely many elements, and neither will you. - **Untyped.** Most of the time, an array or other collection in a computer program contains elements of only a single type; it’s an array of integers, or a linked list of Customer objects, for example. This is important because the program often needs to treat all elements in the collection the same way. Perhaps it needs to loop over the array to add up all the numbers, or iterate through a linked list and search for customers who have not placed an order in the last six months. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: # 2.6 Sets of Sets Sets are heterogeneous — a single set can contain four universities, seven integers, and an image — and so it might occur to you that they can contain other sets as well. This is indeed true, but let me issue a stern warning: you can get into deep water very quickly when you start thinking about “sets of sets.” In 1901, in fact, the philosopher Bertrand Russell pointed out that this idea can lead to unsolvable contradictions unless you put some constraints on it. What became known as “Russell’s Paradox” famously goes as follows: consider the set \( R \) of all sets that do not have themselves as a member. For this reason, we’ll be very careful to use curly braces to denote sets, and parentheses to denote ordered pairs. By the way, although the word “coordinate” is often used to describe the elements of an ordered pair, that’s really a geometry-centric word that implies a visual plot of some kind. Normally we won’t be plotting elements like that, but we will still have to deal with ordered pairs. I’ll just call the constituent parts “elements” to make it more general. Three-dimensional points need ordered triples \( (x, y, z) \), and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to deduce that we could extend this to any number of elements. The question is what to call them, and you do sort of sound like a rocket scientist (or other generic nerd) when you say tuple. Some people rhyme this word with “Drupal,” and others with “couple,” by the way, and there seems to be no consensus. If you have an ordered pair-type thing with 5 elements, therefore, it’s a 5-tuple (or a quintuple). If it has 117 elements, it’s a 117-tuple, and there’s really nothing else to call it. The general term (if we don’t know or want to specify how many elements) is n-tuple. In any case, it’s an ordered sequence of elements that may contain duplicates, so it’s very different than a set. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 25 Context: 2.8 Some special sets ===================== In addition to the empty set, there are symbols for some other common sets, including: - **Z** — the integers (positive, negative, and zero) - **N** — the natural numbers (positive integers and zero) - **Q** — the rational numbers (all numbers that can be expressed as an integer divided by another integer) - **R** — the real numbers (all numbers that aren't imaginary, even decimal numbers that aren't rational) The cardinality of all these sets is infinity, although, as I alluded to previously, \(\mathbb{R}\) is in some sense "greater than" \(\mathbb{N}\). For the curious, we say that \(\mathbb{N}\) is a countably infinite set, whereas \(\mathbb{R}\) is uncountably infinite. Speaking very loosely, this can be thought of this way: if we start counting up all the natural numbers, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., we will never get to the end of them. But at least we can start counting. With the real numbers, we can't even get off the ground. Where do you begin? Starting with 0 is fine, but then what's the "next" real number? Choosing anything for your second number inevitably skips a lot in between. Once you've digested this, I'll spring another shocking truth on you: \(|\mathbb{Q}| \text{ is actually equal to } |\mathbb{R}|, \text{ not greater than it as } |\mathbb{R}|. \text{ Cantor came up with an ingenious numbering scheme whereby all the rational numbers — including 3, -9, \text{ and } \frac{1}{17} — can be listed off regularly, in order, just like the integers can. And so } |\mathbb{Q}| = |\mathbb{N}| \neq |\mathbb{R}|. \text{ This kind of stuff can blow your mind.} #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 29 Context: # 2.9. COMBINING SETS Look at the right-hand side. The first pair of parentheses encloses only female computer science majors. The right pair encloses female math majors. Then we take the union of the two, to get a group which contains only females, and specifically only the females who are computer science majors or math majors (or both). Clearly, the two sides of the equals sign have the same extension. The distributive property in basic algebra doesn’t work if you flip the times and plus signs (normally \( a + b + c \neq (a + b) + (a + c) \)), but remarkably it does here: \( X \cup (Y \cap Z) = (X \cup Y) \cap (X \cup Z) \). Using the same definitions of \( X, Y, \) and \( Z \), work out the meaning of this one and convince yourself it’s always true. ## Identity Laws Simplest thing you’ve learned all day: - \( X \cup \emptyset = X \) - \( X \cap X = X \) You don’t change \( X \) by adding nothing to it, or taking nothing away from it. ## Dominance Laws The flip side of the above is that \( X \cup \Omega = \Omega \) and \( X \cap \emptyset = \emptyset \). If you take \( X \) and add everything and the kitchen sink to it, you get everything and the kitchen sink. And if you restrict \( X \) to having nothing, it of course has nothing. ## Complement Laws \( X \cup \overline{X} = \Omega \). This is another way of saying “everything (in the domain of discourse) is either in, or not in, a set.” So if I take \( X \), and then I take everything not in \( X \), and smooth the two together, I get everything. In a similar vein, \( X \cap \overline{X} = \emptyset \), because there can’t be any element that’s both in \( X \) and not in \( X \): that would be a contradiction. Interestingly, the first of these two laws has become controversial in modern philosophy. It’s called “the law of the excluded middle,” and is explicitly repudiated in many modern logic systems. ## De Morgan's Laws De Morgan’s laws. Now these are worth memorizing, if only because (1) they’re incredibly important, and (2) they #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: 2.10 Subsets =========== We learned that the “∈” symbol is used to indicate set membership: the element on the left is a member of the set on the right. A related but distinct notion is the idea of a subset. When we say \( X \subset Y \) (pronounced “X is a subset of Y”), it means that every member of \( X \) is also a member of \( Y \). The reverse is not necessarily true, of course; otherwise “⊆” would just mean “=”. So if \( A = \{ Dad, Lizzy \} \) and \( K = \{ Dad, Mom, Lizzy \} \), then we can say \( A \subset K \). Be careful about the distinction between “∈” and “⊆”, which are often confused. With “∈”, the thing on the left is an element, whereas with “⊆”, the thing on the left is a set. This is further complicated by the fact that the element on the left-hand side of “∈” might well be a set. Let's see some examples. Suppose \( Q \) is the set \( \{ 4, 9, 4 \} \). \( Q \) has three elements here, one of which is itself a set. Now suppose that we let \( P \) be the set \( \{ 4, 9 \} \). Question: Is \( P \subset Q \)? The answer is yes: the set \( \{ 4, 9 \} \) (which is the same as the set \( \{ 9, 4 \} \), just written in a different way) is in fact an element of the set \( Q \). Next question: Is \( P \subset Q \)? The answer is no, \( P \nsubseteq Q \). If there are two of them (4 and 4) also in \( Q \), then 4 is a member of \( Q \), not 9. Last question: If \( R \) is defined to be \( \{ 2, 4 \} \), is \( R \subset Q \)? The answer is yes, since both 2 and 4 are members of \( Q \). Notice that the definition here is a subset of itself. Sometimes, though, it’s useful to talk about whether a set is really a subset of another, and you don’t want to “count” if the two sets are actually equal. This is called a proper subset, and the symbol for it is \( \subsetneq \). You can see the rationale for the choice of symbol, because “⊆” is kind of like “<” for numbers, and “⊂” is like “<”. Every set is a subset (not necessarily a proper one) of itself, because #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 33 Context: ```markdown ## 2.11. POWER SETS Don't lose sight. There are four elements to the power set of \( A \), each of which is one of the possible subsets. It might seem strange to talk about "all of the possible subsets"—when I first learned this stuff, I remember thinking at first that there would be no limit to the number of subsets you could make from a set. But of course there is. To create a subset, you can either include, or exclude, each one of the original set's members. In \( A \)’s case, you can either (1) include both Dad and Lizzy, or (2) include Dad but not Lizzy, or (3) include Lizzy but not Dad, or (4) exclude both, in which case your subset is empty. Therefore, \( P(A) \) includes all four of those subsets. Now what's the cardinality of \( P(X) \) for some set \( X \)? That's an interesting question, and one well worth pondering. The answer ripples through the heart of a lot of combinatorics and the binary number system, topics we'll cover later. And the answer is right at our fingertips if we just extrapolate from the previous example. To form a subset of \( X \), we have a choice to either include, or else exclude, each of its elements. So there's two choices for the first element, and then whether we choose to include or exclude that first element, there are two choices for the second, etc. So if \( |X| = 2 \) (recall that this notation means \( X \) has two elements) or \( X \) has a cardinality of \( 2^n \), then its power set has \( 2 \times 2 \) members. If \( |X| = 3 \), then its power set has \( 2 \times 2 \times 2 \) members. In general: \[ |P(X)| = 2^{|X|}. \] As a limiting case (and a brain-bender), notice that if \( X \) is the empty set, then \( P(X) \) has one (not zero) members, because there is in fact one subset of the empty set: namely, the empty set itself. So \( |X| = 0 \), and \( |P(X)| = 1 \). And that jives with the above formula. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 35 Context: # 2.12. PARTITIONS All of these are ways of dividing up the Davies family into groups so that no one is in more than one group, and everyone is in some group. The following is **not** a partition: - `{ Mom, Lizzy, T.J. }`, and `{ Dad }` because it leaves out Johnny. This, too, is **not** a partition: - `{ Dad }`, `{ Mom, T.J. }`, and `{ Johnny, Lizzy, Dad }` because Dad appears in two of the subsets. By the way, realize that every set \( S \) together with its (total) complement \( S' \) forms a partition of the entire domain of discourse \( \Omega \). This is because every element either is, or is not, in any given set. The set of males and non-males are a partition of \( \Omega \) because everything is either a male or a non-male, and never both (inanimate objects and other nouns are non-males, just as women are). The set of prime numbers and the set of everything-except-prime-numbers are a partition. The set of underdone cheeseburgers and the set of everything-except-underdone-cheeseburgers form a partition of \( \Omega \). By pure logic, this is true no matter what the set is. You might wonder why partitions are an important concept. The answer is that they come up quite a bit, and when they do, we can make some important simplifications. Take \( S \), the set of all students at UMW. We can partition it in several different ways. If we divide \( S \) into the set of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, we have a partition: every student is one of those grade levels, and no student is more than one. If we group them into in-state and out-of-state students, we again have a partition. Note that dividing \( S \) into computer science majors and English majors does not give us a partition. For one thing, not everyone is majoring in one of those two subjects. For another, some students are majoring in both. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 39 Context: # 2.13. EXERCISES 21. What’s \( A \cap B \)? \{ Macbeth, Hamlet \}. 22. What’s \( B \cap T \)? ∅. 23. What’s \( B \cap \overline{T} \)? B. (which is { Scrabble, Monopoly, Othello. }) 24. What’s \( A \cup (B \cap T) \)? \{ Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth \}. 25. What’s \( (A \cup B) \cap T \)? \{ Macbeth, Hamlet \}. 26. What’s \( A \setminus B \)? Simply \( T \), since these two sets have nothing in common. 27. What’s \( T' \setminus B \)? \{ (Hamlet, Macbeth), (Hamlet, Hamlet), (Hamlet, Othello), (Village, Macbeth), (Village, Hamlet), (Village, Othello), (Town, Hamlet), (Town, Othello) \}. The order of the ordered pairs within the set is not important; the order of the elements within each ordered pair is important. 28. What’s \( T \cap X \)? 0. 29. What’s \( (B \cap B) \times (A \cap T) \)? \{ (Scrabble, Hamlet), (Monopoly, Hamlet), (Othello, Hamlet) \}. 30. What’s \( I \cup B \cup T \)? 7. 31. What’s \( I \cap (A \cap T) \)? 21. (The first parenthesized expression gives rise to a set with 7 elements, and the second to a set with three elements (B itself). Each element from the first set gets paired with an element from the second, so there are 21 such pairings.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 41 Context: ## 2.13. EXERCISES 38. Is this a partition of \( G \)? Yes. (This partitions the elements into the gospels that were written by Jews, those that were written by Greeks, those that were written by Romans, and those that were written by Americans.) - \( \{ Matthew, John \} \) - \( \{ Luke \} \) - \( \{ Mark \} \) - \( \emptyset \) 39. What’s the power set of \( \{ Rihanna \} \)? \( \{ \{ Rihanna \}, \emptyset \} \) Yes, since \( \{ peanut, jelly \} \) is one of the eight subsets of \( \{ peanut, butter, jelly \} \). (Can you name the other seven?) 40. Is \( \{ peanut, jelly \} \in P(\{ peanut, butter, jelly \}) \)? 41. Is it true for every set \( S \) that \( S \in P(S) \)? Yep. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 47 Context: # 3.4 FINITE AND INFINITE RELATIONS life \( x \) is romantically attracted to \( y \). The extension is probably only \( \{ (Ron, Hermione), (Hermione, Ron) \} \), although who knows what goes through teenagers' minds. Another example would be the relation "hasMoreCaloriesThan" between \( X \) and \( Y \): this relation's extension is \( \{ (Mt. Dew, Dr. Pepper) \} \). (Fun fact: Dr. Pepper has only 150 calories per can, whereas Mt. Dew has 170.) Note that just because a relation's two sets are the same, that doesn't necessarily imply that the two elements are the same for any of its ordered pairs. Harry clearly doesn't have a crush on himself, nor does anyone else have a self-crush. And no soda has more calories than itself, either — that's impossible. That being said, though, an ordered pair can have the same two elements. Consider the relation "hasSeen" between \( X \) and \( Y \). Surely all three wizards have looked in a mirror at some point in their lives, so in addition to ordered pairs like \( (Ron, Harry) \), the hasSeen relation also contains ordered pairs like \( (Ron, Ron) \) and \( (Hermione, Hermione) \). ## 3.4 Finite and Infinite Relations Sets can be infinite, and relations can be too. An **infinite relation** is simply a relation with infinitely many ordered pairs in it. This might seem strange at first, since how could we ever hope to specify all the ordered pairs? But it’s really no different than with sets: we either have to do it intentionally, or else we are systematically computing the extension. As an example of the first, consider the relation "isGreaterThan" between \( Z \) and \( R \). (Recall that \( Z \) is just a way of writing "the set of integers".) This relation contains ordered pairs like \( (2, 5) \) and \( (17, -13) \), since \( 5 > 2 \) isGreaterThan \( 2 \) and \( 17 > -13 \), but not \( (7, 9) \) or \( (11, 11) \). Clearly it’s an infinite relation. We couldn’t list all the pairs, but we don’t need to, since the name implies the underlying meaning of the relation. As an example of the second, consider the relation "isLuckerThan" between \( N \) and \( N \). (The \( N \) means "the natural numbers.") We #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 51 Context: # 3.5. PROPERTIES OF ENDORLEATIONS It’s not transitive. Remember: to meet any of these properties, they have to fully apply. “Almost” only counts in horseshoes. Let’s try another example: - (Ron, Harry) - (Ron, Ron) - (Harry, Harry) - (Hermione, Hermione) - (Harry, Hermione) - (Hermione, Harry) Is this reflexive? Yes. We’ve got all three wizards appearing with themselves. Is it symmetric? No, since (Ron, Harry) has no match. Is it antisymmetric? No, since (Harry, Hermione) does have a match. Is it transitive? No, since the presence of (Ron, Harry) and (Harry, Hermione) implies the necessity of (Ron, Hermione), which doesn’t appear, so no dice. ## Partial Orders and Posets A couple of other fun terms: an endorelation which is (1) reflexive, (2) antisymmetric, and (3) transitive is called a **partial order**. A set together with a partial order is called a **partially ordered set**, or "poset" for short. The name "partial order" makes sense once you think through an example. You may have noticed that when dogs meet each other (especially male dogs), they often circle each other and take stock of each other and try to establish dominance through the so-called "alpha dog." This is a pecking order of sorts that many different species establish. Now suppose I have the set D of all dogs, and a relation “IsAtLeastAs-ToughAs” between them. The relation starts off with every reflexive pair in it: (Rex, Rex), (Fido, Fido), etc. This is because obviously every dog is at least as tough as itself. Now every time two dogs x and y encounter each other, they establish dominance through eye contact or physical intimidation, and then one of the following ordered pairs is added to the relation: either (x, y) or (y, x), but never both. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 60 Context: # CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS own wizard, and no soft drinks (or wizards) are left out. How exciting! This is a perfectly bijective function, also called a **bijection**. Again, the only way to get a bijection is for the domain and codomain to be the same size (although that alone does not guarantee a bijection; witness \( f \), above). Also observe that if they are the same size, then injectivity and surjectivity go hand-in-hand. Violate one, and you’re bound to violate the other. Uphold the one, and you’re bound to uphold the other. There’s a nice, pleasing, symmetrical elegance to the whole idea. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 65 Context: # 3.8. EXERCISES 29. **Is faveSport injective?** No, because Julie and Sam (and Chuck) all map to the same value (basketball). For a function to be injective, there must be no two domain elements that map to the same codomain element. 30. **Is there any way to make it injective?** Not without altering the underlying sets. There are three athletes and two sports, so we can’t help but map multiple athletes to the same sport. 31. **Fine. Is faveSport surjective?** No, because no one maps to volleyball. 32. **Is there any way to make it surjective?** Sure, for instance, change Sam from basketball to volleyball. Now both of the codomain elements are "reachable" by some domain element, so it’s surjective. 33. **Is faveSport now also bijective?** No, because it’s still not injective. 34. **How can we alter things so that it’s bijective?** One way is to add a third sport—say, kickboxing—and move either Julie or Chuck over to kickboxing. If we have Julie map to kickboxing, Sam map to volleyball, and Chuck map to basketball, we have a bijection. 35. **How do we normally write the fact that "Julie maps to kickboxing"?** faveSport(Julie) = kickboxing. 36. **What’s another name for "injective"?** One-to-one. 37. **What’s another name for "surjective"?** Onto. 38. **What’s another name for "range"?** Image. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 81 Context: # 4.5 TOTAL PROBABILITY Pr(A) = Pr(A ∩ C₁) + Pr(A ∩ C₂) + ... + Pr(A ∩ C_N) = Pr(A|C₁)Pr(C₁) + Pr(A|C₂)Pr(C₂) + ... + Pr(A|C_N)Pr(C_N) = ∑ᵏ₌₁ Pr(A|Cₖ)Pr(Cₖ) is the formula.¹ Let's take an example of this approach. Suppose that as part of a promotion for Muvico Cinemas movie theatre, we're planning to give a door prize to the 1000th customer this Saturday afternoon. We want to know, though, the probability that this person will be a minor. Figuring out how many patrons overall will be under 18 might be difficult. But suppose we're showing these three films on Saturday: *Spider-Man: No Way Home*, *Here Before*, and *Sonic the Hedgehog 2*. We can estimate the fraction of each movie's viewers that will be minors: .6, .01, and .95, respectively. We can also predict how many tickets will be sold for each film: 2,000 for *Spider-Man*, 500 for *Here Before*, and 1,000 for *Sonic*. Applying frequentist principles, we can compute the probability that a particular visitor will be seeing each of the movies: - \(Pr(Spider-Man) = \frac{2000}{2000 + 500 + 1000} = 0.571\) - \(Pr(Here \ Before) = \frac{500}{2000 + 500 + 1000} = 0.143\) - \(Pr(Sonic) = \frac{1500}{2000 + 500 + 1000} = 0.286\) ¹ If you're not familiar with the notation in that last line, realize that \(Σ\) (a capital Greek "sigma") just represents a sort of loop with a counter. The \(k\) in the sign means that the counter is \(k\) and starts at 1. The "N" above the line means the counter goes up to \(N\), which is its last value. And what does the loop do? It adds up a cumulative sum. The thing being added to the total each time through the loop is the expression to the right of the sign. The last line with the \(Σ\) is just a more compact way of expressing the preceding line. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 85 Context: # 4.6. BAYES' THEOREM See how that works? If I do have the disease (and there's a 1 in 1,000 chance of that), there's a .99 probability of me testing positive. On the other hand, if I don't have the disease (a 999 in 1,000 chance of that), there's a .01 probability of me testing positive anyway. The sum of those two mutually exclusive probabilities is 0.01098. Now we can use our Bayes’ Theorem formula to deduce: \[ P(D|T) = \frac{P(T|D) P(D)}{P(T)} \] \[ P(D|T) = \frac{.99 \cdot \frac{1}{1000}}{0.01098} \approx .0902 \] Wow. We tested positive on a 99% accurate medical exam, yet we only have about a 9% chance of actually having the disease! Great news for the patient, but a head-scratcher for the math student. How can we understand this? Well, the key is to look back at that Total Probability calculation in equation 4.1. Remember that there were two ways to test positive: one where you had the disease, and one where you didn't. Look at the contribution to the whole that each of those two probabilities produced. The first was 0.00099, and the second was 0.9999, over ten times higher. Why? Simply because the disease is so rare. Think about it: the test fails once every hundred times, but a random person only has the disease once every thousand times. If you test positive, it’s far more likely that the test screwed up than that you actually have the disease, which is rarer than blue moons. Anyway, all of this about diseases and tests is a side note. The main point is that Bayes' Theorem allows us to recast a search for \(P(X|Y)\) into a search for \(P(Y|X)\), which is often easier to find numbers for. One of many computer science applications of Bayes' Theorem is in text mining. In this field, we computationally analyze the words in documents in order to automatically classify them or form summaries or conclusions about their contents. One goal might be to identify the true author of a document, given samples of the writing of various suspected authors. Consider the Federalist Papers, #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 91 Context: # 4.8 EXERCISES 9. Okay, so we have the probabilities of our four swimmers Ben, Chad, Grover, and Tim each winning the heat at 1, 2, 4, and 3, respectively. Now suppose Ben, Chad, and Grover are UWM athletes; Tim is from Marymount. Ben and Tim are juniors, and Chad and Grover are sophomores. We'll define: \( U = \{ \text{Ben, Chad, Grover} \} \) \( M = \{ \text{Tim} \} \) \( J = \{ \text{Ben, Tim} \} \) \( S = \{ \text{Chad, Grover} \} \) What's \( P(U) \)? .7 10. What's \( P(J) \)? .4 11. What's \( P(U^c) \)? .3 \cdot (1 - P(U), \text{ of course.}) 12. What's \( P(J \cup S) \)? Exactly 1. All of the outcomes are represented in the two sets \( J \) and \( S \). (Put another way, all competitors are juniors or seniors.) 13. What's \( P(J \cap S) \)? Zero. Sets \( J \) and \( S \) have no elements in common; therefore their intersection is a set with no outcomes, and the probability of a non-existent outcome happening is 0. (Put another way, nobody is both a junior and a senior.) 14. What's the probability of a UWM junior winning the heat? This is \( P(J \cap U) \), which is the probability that the winner is a junior and a UWM student. Since \( U \cap J = \{ \text{Ben} \} \), the answer is 1. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 93 Context: # Chapter 5 ## Structures Much of computer science deals with representing and manipulating information. To do this, people have devised various **structures** for organizing chunks of data in a way that makes it easy to store, search, and retrieve. There’s a whole course in most computer science curricula called “data structures” which covers how to implement these structures in code. In this book, we won’t be talking about the code, but rather the abstract structures themselves. This chapter has a lot of pictures in it, which depict examples of the various structures in a very general way. The concepts here map directly to code when you need to put them into practice. There are all kinds of data structures — arrays, linked lists, queues, stacks, hashtables, and heaps, to name a few — but they almost all boil down to one of two fundamental kinds of things: graphs, and trees. There are the two structures we’ll focus on in this chapter. A graph is just about the most general structure you can envision: a bunch of scattered data elements that are related to each other in some way. Almost every data structure imaginable can be recast as a type of graph. Trees are sort of a special case of graphs, but also sort of a topic in their own right, kind of like functions were a special type of relation, but also kind of different. A tree can be seen as a type of graph that imposes extra special conditions which give some navigational benefit. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 95 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS The edges, we have precisely the structure of a graph. Psychologists have given this another name: a semantic network. It is thought that the myriad of concepts you have committed to memory — Abraham Lincoln, and bar of soap, and my fall schedule, and perhaps millions of others — are all associated in your mind in a vast semantic network that links the related concepts together. When your mind recalls information, or deduces facts, or even drifts randomly in idle moments, it’s essentially traversing this graph along the various edges that exist between vertices. That’s deep. But you don’t have to go near that deep to see the appearance of graph structures all throughout computer science. What’s MapQuest, if not a giant graph where the vertices are travelable locations and the edges are routes between them? What’s Facebook, if not a giant graph where the vertices are people and the edges are friendships? What’s the World Wide Web, if not a giant graph where the vertices are pages and the edges are hyperlinks? What’s the Internet, if not a giant graph where the vertices are computers or routers and the edges are communication links between them? This simple scheme of linked vertices is powerful enough to accommodate a whole host of applications, which is worth studying. ## Graph Terms The study of graphs brings with it a whole bevy of new terms which are important to use precisely: 1. **Vertex.** Every graph contains zero or more vertices.¹ (These are also sometimes called nodes, concepts, or objects.) 2. **Edge.** Every graph contains zero or more edges. (These are also sometimes called links, connections, associations, or relationships.) Each edge connects exactly two vertices, unless the edge connects a vertex to itself, which is possible, believe it. > ¹ The phrase "zero or more" is common in discrete math. In this case, it indicates that the empty graph, which contains no vertices at all, is still a legitimate graph. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 99 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS A graph of dependencies like this must be both **directed** and **acyclic**, or it wouldn’t make sense. Directed, of course, means that task X can require task Y to be completed before it, without the reverse also being true. If they both depended on each other, we’d have an infinite loop, and no brownies could ever get baked! Acyclic means that no kind of cycle can exist in the graph, even one that goes through multiple vertices. Such a cycle would again result in an infinite loop, making the project hopeless. Imagine if there were an arrow from **bake for 30 mins** back to **grease pan** in Figure 5.4. Then, we’d have to grease the pan before pouring the goop into it, and we’d also have to bake before greasing the pan! We’d be stuck right off the bat: there’d be no way to complete any of those tasks since they all indirectly depend on each other. A graph that is both directed and acyclic (and therefore free of these problems) is sometimes called a **DAG** for short. ``` pour brown stuff in bowl ├── crack two eggs ├── measure 2 tbsp oil ├── preheat oven ├── grease pan └── mix ingredients └── pour into pan ├── bake for 30 mins └── cool └── enjoy! ``` *Figure 5.4: A DAG.* #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 100 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ## Spatial Positioning One important thing to understand about graphs is which aspects of a diagram are relevant. Specifically, the spatial positioning of the vertices doesn’t matter. In Figure 5.2 we view Muhammad Ali in the mid-upper left, and Sonny Liston in the extreme upper right. But this was an arbitrary choice, and irrelevant. More specifically, this isn’t part of the information the diagram claims to represent. We could have positioned the vertices differently, as in Figure 5.5, and had the same graph. In both diagrams, there are the same vertices, and the same edges between them (check me). Therefore, these are mathematically the same graph. ``` George Foreman Sonny Liston Muhammad Ali Joe Frazier ``` Figure 5.5: A different look to the same graph as Figure 5.2. This might not seem surprising for the prize fighter graph, but for graphs like the MapQuest graph, which actually represent physical locations, it can seem jarring. In Figure 5.3 we could have drawn Richmond north of Fredericksburg, and Virginia Beach on the far west side of the diagram, and still had the same graph, provided that all the nodes and links were the same. Just remember that the spatial positioning is designed for human convenience, and isn’t part of the mathematical information. It’s similar to how there’s no order to the elements of a set, even though when we specify a set extensionally, we have to list them in some order to avoid writing all the element names on top of each other. On a graph diagram, we have to draw each vertex somewhere, but where we put it is simply aesthetic. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 105 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS Now it might have occurred to you that we can run into trouble if we encounter the same node multiple times while we're traversing. This can happen if the graph has a cycle: there will be more than one path to reach some nodes, and we could get stuck in an infinite loop if we're not careful. For this reason, we introduce the concept of marking nodes. This is kind of like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs: if we're ever about to explore a node, but find out it's marked, then we know we've already been there, and it's pointless to search it again. So there are two things we're going to do to nodes as we search: - **To mark** a node means to remember that we've already encountered it in the process of our search. - **To visit** a node means to actually do whatever it is we need to do to the node (call the phone number, examine its name for a pattern match, add the number to our total, whatever). Now then, Breadth-first traversal (BFT) is an **algorithm**, which is just a step-by-step, reliable procedure that's guaranteed to produce a result. In this case, it's guaranteed to visit every node in the graph that's reachable from the starting node, and not get stuck in any infinite loops in the process. Here it is: ## Breadth-first traversal (BFT) 1. Choose a starting node. 2. Mark it and enqueue it on an empty queue. 3. While the queue is not empty, do these steps: a. Dequeue the front node of the queue. b. Visit it. c. Mark and enqueue all of its unmarked adjacent nodes (in any order). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 108 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES Start with an empty stack: Push a triangle, and we have: Push a star, and we have: Push a heart, and we have: Pop the heart, and we have: Push a club, and we have: Pop the club, and we have: Pop the star, and we have: Pop the triangle. We’re empty again: Figure 5.10: A stack in action. The horizontal bar marks the bottom of the stack, and the elements are pushed and popped from the top. The algorithm is almost identical to BFT, except that instead of a queue, we use a stack. A stack is the same as a queue except that instead of putting elements on one end and taking them off the other, you add and remove to the same end. This “end” is called the top of the stack. When we add an element to this end, we say we **push** it on the stack, and when we remove the top element, we say we **pop** it off. You can think of a stack as...well, a stack, whether of books or cafeteria trays or anything else. You can’t get anything out of the middle of a stack, but you can take items off and put more items on. The first item pushed is always the last one to be popped, and the most recent one pushed is always ready to be popped back off, and so a stack is also sometimes called a “LIFO” (last-in-first-out). The depth-first traversal algorithm itself looks like déjà vu all over again. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 114 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES Costs 450 + 250 = 700. This means we remove the arrow from Toulouse to Lyon and draw a new arrow from Vichy to Lyon. Note that the arrow from Bordeaux to Toulouse doesn’t disappear, even though it was part of this apparently-not-so-great path to Lyon. That’s because the best route to Toulouse still is along that edge. Just because we wouldn't use it to go to Lyon doesn’t mean we don’t want it if we were going simply to Toulouse. In Frame 6, we take up the other 450 node (Paris) which we temporarily neglected when we randomly chose to continue with Vichy first. When we do, we discover a better path to Lille than we had before, and so we update its distance (to 800 km) and its path (through Nantes and Paris instead of through Vichy) accordingly. When we consider Marseille in Frame 7, we find another better path: this time to Lyon. Forget that through-Vichy stuff; it turns out to be a bit faster to go through Toulouse and Marseille. In other news, we found a way to Nice. Hopefully, you get the pattern. We continue selecting the unmarked node with the lowest tentative distance, updating its neighbors' distances and paths, then marking it "visited," until we’re done with all the nodes. The last frame shows the completed version (with all nodes colored white again so you can read them). The verdict is: our troops should go from Bordeaux through Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon, and Briançon on their way to the fighting in Strasbourg, for a total of 1,250 kilometers. Who knew? All other paths are longer. Note also how in the figure, the shortest distance to every node is easily identified by looking at the heavy arrowed lines. ## Finding the minimal connecting edge set So we’ve figured out the shortest path for our troops. But our field generals might also want to do something different: establish supply lines. A supply line is a safe route over which food, fuel, and machinery can be delivered, with smooth travel and protection from ambush. Now we have military divisions stationed in each of the eleven French cities, and so the cities must all be connected to each other via secure paths. Safeguarding each mile of a supply line takes resources, though, so we want to do this in the minimal setup. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 118 Context: ```markdown # Chapter 5: Structures ## Figure 5.14 The stages of Prim's minimal connecting edge set algorithm. Heavy lines indicate edges that have been (irrevocably) added to the set. | Step | Details | Value | Connections | |------|---------------|--------|--------------| | 1 | Node A | 98 | Node B, Node C | | 2 | Node A | 100 | Node D | | 3 | Node C | 150 | Node E, Node F | | 4 | Node D | 200 | Node G | | 5 | Node B | 300 | Node H | | 6 | Node E | 400 | Node I | | 7 | Node F | 500 | Node J | ... ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 119 Context: 5.2 Trees ========= you think that the shortest path between any two nodes would land right on this Prim network? Yet if you compare Figure 5.14 with Figure 5.13 you'll see that the quickest way from Bordeaux to Strasbourg is through Marseille, not Vichy. So we end up with the remarkable fact that the shortest route between two points has nothing whatsoever to do with the shortest total distance between all points. Who knew? 5.2 Trees --------- A tree is really nothing but a simplification of a graph. There are two kinds of trees in the world: free trees, and rooted trees. ### Free trees A free tree is just a connected graph with no cycles. Every node is reachable from the others, and there’s only one way to get anywhere. Take a look at Figure 5.15. It looks just like a graph (and it is) but unlike the WWII France graph, it’s more skeletal. This is because in some sense, a free tree doesn’t contain anything “extra.” If you have a free tree, the following interesting facts are true: 1. There’s exactly one path between any two nodes. (Check it!) 2. If you remove any edge, the graph becomes disconnected. (Try it!) 3. If you add any new edge, you end up adding a cycle. (Try it!) 4. If there are n nodes, there are n - 1 edges. (Think about it!) So basically, if your goal is connecting all the nodes, and you have a free tree, you’re all set. Adding anything is redundant, and taking away anything breaks it. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 123 Context: # 5.2 TREES parent is A, and A has no parent. ## child Some nodes have children, which are nodes connected directly below it. A’s children are F and B, C’s are D and E, B’s only child is C, and E has no children. ## sibling A node with the same parent. E’s sibling is D, B’s is F, and none of the other nodes have siblings. ## ancestor Your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc., all the way back to the root. B’s only ancestor is A, while E’s ancestors are C, B, and A. Note that F is not C’s ancestor, even though it’s above it on the diagram; there’s no connection from C to F, except back through the root (which doesn’t count). ## descendant Your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc., all the way to the leaves. B’s descendants are C, D, and E, while A’s are F, B, C, D, and E. ## leaf A node with no children. F, D, and E are leaves. Note that in a (very) small tree, the root could itself be a leaf. ## internal node Any node that’s not a leaf. A, B, and C are the internal nodes in our example. ## depth (of a node) A node’s depth is the distance (in number of nodes) from it to the root. The root itself has depth zero. In our example, B is of depth 1, E is of depth 3, and A is of depth 0. ## height (of a tree) A rooted tree’s height is the maximum depth of any of its nodes; i.e., the maximum distance from the root to any node. Our example has a height of 3, since the “deepest” nodes are D and E, each with a depth of 3. A tree with just one node is considered to have a height of 0. Bizarrely, but to be consistent, we’ll say that the empty tree has height -1! Strange, but what else could it be? To say it has height 0 seems inconsistent with a one-node tree also having height 0. At any rate, this won’t come up much. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 126 Context: # Chapter 5. Structures Subtree. This visits O followed by I (since O has no left subtree either) which finally returns back up the ladder. It's at this point where it's easy to get lost. We finish visiting I, and then we have to ask "okay, where the heck were we? How did we get here?" The answer is that we had just been at the K node, where we had traversed its (D) subtree. So now what is it time to do? Traverse the right subtree, of course, which is M. This involves visiting M, C, and E (in that order) before returning to the very top, G. Now we're in the same sort of situation where we could have gotten lost before: we've spent a lot of time in the tangled mess of G's left subtree, and we just have to remember that it's now time to do G's right subtree. Follow this same procedure, and the entire order of visitation ends up being: G, K, D, O, I, M, C, E, H, A, B, F, N, L. (See Figure 5.18 for a visual.) ![Figure 5.18: The order of node visitation in pre-order traversal.](#) ## To traverse a tree post-order, we: 1. Treat the left child and all its descendants as a subtree, and traverse it in its entirety. 2. Do the same with the right child. 3. Visit the root. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 131 Context: # 5.2. TREES anced: every level is completely filled. Figure 5.22 is not perfect, but it would be if we either added nodes to fill out level 4, or deleted the unfinished part of level 3 (as in Figure 5.23). ``` G / \ K H / \ / \ D M A B / \ / \ O C E I \ F \ N ``` Figure 5.23: A “perfect” binary tree. Perfect binary trees obviously have the strictest size restrictions. It’s only possible, in fact, to have perfect binary trees with \( 2^{h} - 1 \) nodes, if \( h \) is the height of the tree. So there are perfect binary trees with 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, ... nodes, but none in between. In each such tree, \( 2^{h} \) of the nodes (almost exactly half) are leaves. Now as we’ll see, binary trees can possess some pretty amazing powers if the nodes within them are organized in certain ways. Specifically, a binary search tree and a heap are two special kinds of binary trees that conform to specific constraints. In both cases, what makes them so powerful is the rate at which a tree grows as nodes are added to it. Suppose we have a perfect binary tree. To make it concrete, let’s say it has height 3, which would give it \( 1+2+4+8=15 \) nodes, 8 of which are leaves. Now what happens if you increase the height of this tree to 4? If it’s still a “perfect” tree, you will have added 16 more nodes (all leaves). Thus, you have doubled the number of leaves by simply adding one more level. This cascades the more levels you add. A tree of height 5 doubles the number of leaves again (to 32), and height 6 doubles it again (to 64). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 141 Context: # 5.2. TREES ```markdown ## Figure 5.30: An incredibly bad, but still technically legit, BST. - Ben - Jennifer - Jim - Molly - Owen - Randi - Xander Into a fresh tree in a beneficial order. What order should we insert them in? Well, remember that whichever node is inserted first will be the root. This suggests that we’d want to insert the **middle** node first into our tree, so that Molly becomes the new root. This leaves half the nodes for her left subtree and half for her right. If you follow this process logically (and recursively) you’ll realize that we next want to insert the middle nodes of each half. This would equate to Jennifer and Randi (in either order). I think of it like the markings on a ruler: first you insert half an inch, then \( \frac{1}{4} \) and \( \frac{3}{4} \) inches, then \( \frac{1}{8} \) and \( \frac{3}{8} \) and \( \frac{5}{8} \) and \( \frac{7}{8} \) inches, etc. This restores to us a perfectly balanced tree at regular intervals, making any large imbalances even more improbable (and short-lived). ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 143 Context: # 5.4 Exercises 1. How many vertices are there in the graph below? ![Graph](link_to_graph_image) 2. How many edges are there? 7. 3. What’s the degree of vertex B? 3. 4. Is this graph directed? No. (No arrowheads on the lines.) 5. Is this graph connected? No – there is no path from A, B, E, or F to either C or D. 6. Is this graph weighted? No. (No numbers annotating the edges.) 7. Is it a tree? No. (A tree must be connected and must also have no cycles, which this graph clearly does: e.g., B–to–A–to–E–to–B.) 8. Is it a DAG? Not remotely; it is neither directed nor acyclic. 9. If this graph represented an undirected relation, how many ordered pairs would it have? 14. (If you said 7, remember that since there are no arrowheads on the lines, this is an undirected graph, which corresponds to a symmetric relation, and hence both (A, E) and (E, A) will be present.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 147 Context: # 5.4. EXERCISES 25. **Is it a binary search tree?** No. Although nearly every node does satisfy the BST property (all the nodes in its left subtree come before it alphabetically, and all the nodes in its right subtree come after it), there is a single exception: Zoe is in Wash's left subtree, whereas she should be to his right. Many ways; one would be to swap Zoe's and Wash's positions. If we do that, the fixed tree would be: ``` Mal / \ Jayne Zoe / \ / Inara Kayle \ River \ Simon \ Wash ``` 26. **How could we fix it?** Take a moment and convince yourself that every node of this new tree does in fact satisfy the BST property. It's not too bad, but it does have one too many levels in it (it has a height of 4, whereas all its nodes would fit in a tree of height 3). 27. **Is the tree balanced?** Many ways; one would be to rotate the River-Simon-Wash subtree so that Simon becomes Zoe's left child. Simon would then be the parent of River (on his left) and Wash (on his right). 28. **How could we make it more balanced?** Suggested approaches include reviewing the structure to ensure the depths of all leaves are as equal as possible or implementing rotations to balance out the heights of subtrees. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 149 Context: # Chapter 6 ## Counting If the title of this chapter seems less than inspiring, it’s only because the kind of counting we learned as children was mostly of a straightforward kind. In this chapter, we’re going to learn to answer some more difficult questions like “how many different semester schedules could a college student possibly have?” and “how many different passwords can a customer choose for this e-commerce website?” and “how likely is this network buffer to overflow, given that its packets are addressed to three different destinations?” The more impressive-sounding name for this topic is **combinatorics**. In combinatorics, we focus on two tasks: counting things (to find out how many there are), and enumerating things (to systematically list them as individuals). Some things turn out to be hard to count but easy to enumerate, and vice versa. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 150 Context: # 6.1 The Fundamental Theorem We start with a basic rule that goes by the audacious name of **The Fundamental Theorem of Counting**. It goes like this: If a whole can be divided into \( k \) parts, and there’s \( n_i \) choices for the \( i \)-th part, then there’s \( n_1 \times n_2 \times n_3 \times \cdots \times n_k \) ways of doing the whole thing. ## Example Jane is ordering a new Lamborghini. She has twelve different paint colors to choose from (including Luscious Red and Sassy Yellow), three different interiors (Premium Leather, Bonded Leather, or Vinyl), and three different stereo systems. She must also choose between automatic and manual transmission, and she can get power locks & windows (or not). How many different configurations does Jane have to choose from? To put it another way, how many different kinds of cars could come off the line for her? The key is that every one of her choices is independent of all the others. Choosing an Envious Green exterior doesn't constrain her choice of transmission, stereo, or anything else. So no matter which of the 12 paint colors she chooses, she can independently choose any of the three interiors, and no matter what these first two choices are, she can freely choose any of the stereos, etc. It’s a mix-and-match. Therefore, the answer is: \[ 12 \times 3 \times 3 \times 2 = 432 \] Here’s an alternate notation you’ll run into for this, by the way: **How many other "Fundamental Theorems" of math do you know?** Here are a few: the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic says that any natural number can be broken down into its prime factors in only one way. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra says that the highest power of a polynomial is how many roots (zeros) it has. The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra says that the row space and the column space of a matrix have the same dimension. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus says that integration and differentiation are the inverses of each other. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 151 Context: # 6.1. THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM which is just a shorter way of writing \[ n_1 \times n_2 \times n_3 \cdots \times n_k. \] As mentioned in section 4.5, the \( \Sigma \) notation is essentially a loop with a counter, and it says to add up the expression to the right of it for each value of the counter. The \( \Pi \) notation is exactly the same, only instead of adding the expressions together for each value of the counter, we're multiplying them. (The reason mathematicians chose the symbols \( \Sigma \) (sigma) and \( \Pi \) (pi) for this, by the way, is that “sigma” and “pi” start with the same letter as “sum” and “product,” respectively.) We can actually get a lot of leverage just with the fundamental theorem. How many different PINs are possible for an ATM card? There are four digits, each of which can be any value from 0 to 9 (ten total values), so the answer is: \[ 10 \times 10 \times 10 \times 10 = 10,000 \text{ different PINs.} \] So a thief at an ATM machine frantically entering PINs at random (hoping to break your account before you call and stop your debit card) would have to try about 5,000 of them on average before cracking the code. What about middle school bullies who are trying to break into your locker? Well, most combination locks are opened by a three-number sequence, each number of which is anything from 0 to 39. So there are: \[ 40 \times 40 \times 40 = 64,000 \text{ different combinations.} \] That's probably slightly overstated, since I'll bet consecutive repeat numbers are not allowed (Master probably doesn't manufacture a #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 152 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING Every car in the state of Virginia must be issued its own license plate number. That's a lot of cars. How many different license plate combinations are available? This one requires a bit more thought, since not all license numbers have the same number of characters. In addition to `SBE4756` and `PY9127`, you can also have `DAM6` or `LUV6` or even `U2`. How can we incorporate these? The trick is to divide up our sets into mutually exclusive subsets, and then add up the cardinalities of the subsets. If only 7 characters fit on a license plate, then clearly every license plate number has either 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 characters. And no license plate has two of these (i.e., there is no plate that is both 5 characters long and 6 characters long). Therefore they’re mutually exclusive subsets, and safe to add. This last point is often not fully appreciated, leading to errors. Be careful not to cavalierly add the cardinalities of non-mutually-exclusive sets! You’ll end up double-counting. So we know that the number of possible license plates is equal to: - The # of 7-character plates - The # of 6-character plates - The # of 5-character plates - ... - The # of 1-character plates. Very well. Now we can figure out each one separately. How do we know how many 7-character plates there are? Well, if every character must be either a letter or a digit, then we have \(26 + 10 = 36\) choices for each character. This implies \(36^7\) different possible 7-character license plates. The total number of plates is therefore: \[ 36^7 + 36^6 + 36^5 + 36^4 + 36^3 + 36^2 + 36^1 = 60,603,140,212 \text{ plates} \] which is about ten times the population of the earth, so I think we're safe for now. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 154 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING or only about .006 times as many as before. Better stick with alphanumeric characters for all seven positions. ## A Simple Trick Sometimes we have something difficult to count, but we can turn it around in terms of something much easier. Often this involves counting the complement of something, then subtracting from the total. For instance, suppose a certain website mandated that user passwords be between 6-10 characters in length — every character being an uppercase letter, lowercase letter, digit, or special character (*, #, $, &, or @) — but it also required each password to have at least one digit or special character. How many passwords are possible? Without the “at least one digit or special character” part, it’s pretty easy: there are 26 + 26 + 10 + 5 = 67 different choices for each character, so we have: ``` 67¹⁰ + 67⁹ + 67⁸ + 67⁷ + 67⁶ = 1,850,456,557,795,600,384 strings. ``` But how do we handle the “at least one” part? One way would be to list all the possible ways of having a password with at least one non-alpha character. The non-alpha could appear in the first position, or the second, or the third, ..., or the tenth, but of course this only works for 10-digit passwords, and in any event it’s not like the other characters couldn’t also be non-alpha. It gets messy really fast. There’s a simple trick, though, once you realize that it’s easy to count the passwords that don’t satisfy the extra constraint. Ask yourself this question: out of all the possible strings of 6-10 characters, how many of them don’t have at least one non-alpha character? (and are therefore illegal, according to the website rules?) It turns out that’s the same as asking “how many strings are there with 6-10 alphabetic (only) characters?” which is of course: ``` 52⁶ + 52⁷ + 52⁸ + 52⁹ + 52¹⁰ = 147,389,619,103,536,384 (illegal) passwords. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 156 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING This pattern comes up so much that mathematicians have established a special notation for it: \[ n \times (n - 1) \times (n - 2) \cdots \times 1 = n! \; (\text{``n-factorial''}) \] We say there are “3-factorial” different brushing orders for the Davies kids. For our purposes, the notion of factorial will only apply for integers, so there’s no such thing as 23.46! or π! (In advanced computer science applications, however, mathematicians sometimes do define factorial for non-integers.) We also define 0! to be 1, which might surprise you. This comes up a heck of a lot. If I give you a jumbled set of letters to unscramble, like “KRBS” (think of the Jumble® word game in the newspaper), how many different unscramblings are there? The answer is 5! or 120, one of which is BRISK. Let's say I shuffle a deck of cards before playing War. How many different games of War are there? The answer is 52!, since any of the cards in the deck might be shuffled on top, then any but that top card could be second, then any of those two could be third, etc. Ten packets arrive near-simultaneously at a network router. How many ways can they be queued up for transmission? 10! ways, just like a larger Davies family. The factorial function grows really, really fast, by the way, even faster than exponential functions. A five letter word like “BRISK” has 120 permutations, but “AMBIENTDROUSLY” has 87,178,291,200, ten times the population of the earth. The number of ways to shuffle a deck is \[ 52! \approx 8.065 \times 10^{67} \] so I don’t think my boys will end up playing the same War game twice any time soon, nor my wife and I the same bridge hand. --- **“War”** is a mindless card game which involves no strategy or decision-making on the part of the players. Once you shuffle the initial deck, the entire outcome of the game is fixed. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 158 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING and so on. Once we have the **RISK** permutations, we can generate the **BRISK** permutations in the same way: | B | R | I | S | K | |---|---|---|---|---| | R | B | I | S | K | | R | I | B | S | K | | R | I | S | B | K | | B | I | R | S | K | | T | B | R | I | S | K | | I | R | B | S | K | | I | R | S | K | | I | S | R | K | | B | S | K | | . . . | Another algorithm to achieve the same goal (though in a different order) is as follows: ## Algorithm #2 for enumerating permutations 1. Begin with a set of **n** objects. a. If **n = 1**, there is only one permutation; namely, the object itself. b. Otherwise, remove each of the objects in turn, and prepend that object to the permutations of all the others, creating another permutation each time. I find this one a little easier to get my head around, but in the end it’s personal preference. The permutations of **BRISK** are: “B followed by all the permutations of **RISK**, plus **I** followed by all the permutations of **BISK**, plus **R** followed by all the permutations of **BRSK**, etc.” So the first few permutations of a 4-letter word are: - R I S K - R I K S - R S I K - R S K I - R K I S - R K S I - I R S K - I R K S - I S R K - I S K R - I K R S - I K S R - S R I K - S R K I - S I R K - S I K R - S K R I - S K I R - K R I S - K R S I - K I R S - K I S R - K S R I - K S I R #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 159 Context: ``` # 6.2. PERMUTATIONS ## Example with 3-letter words | R | S | K | |---|---|---| | R | K | S | | R | S | I | | I | R | S | | I | S | K | | I | K | R | | S | R | I | | S | I | K | | ... | ... | ... | Then, for the 5-letter word: | B | R | I | S | K | |---|---|---|---|---| | B | R | I | K | S | | B | S | K | I | R | | B | K | I | S | R | | B | K | S | I | R | | B | I | R | S | K | | B | I | K | R | S | | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ## Partial permutations Sometimes we want to count the permutations of a set, but only want to choose some of the items each time, not all of them. For example, consider a golf tournament in which the top ten finishers (out of 45) all receive prize money, with the first-place winner receiving the most, the second-place finisher a lesser amount, and so on down to tenth place, who receives a nominal prize. How many different finishes are possible to the tournament? In this case, we want to know how many different orderings of golfers there are, but it turns out that past tenth place, we don’t care what order they finished in. All that matters is the first ten places. If the top ten are 1. Tiger, 2. Phil, 3. Lee, 4. Rory, ... and ... ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 160 Context: # 152 ## CHAPTER 6. COUNTING 10. Bubba, then it doesn’t matter whether Jason finished 11th or 45th. It’s easy to see that there are 45 possible winners; then for each winner there are 44 possible second-placers, etc., so this total turns out to be: 45×44×43×42×41×40×39×38×37×36 = 11,576,551,623,436,800 finishes. Each of the finishes is called a *partial permutation*. It’s a permutation of k items chosen from n total, and is denoted P(n, k). The number of such permutations works out to: $$ n \times (n - 1) \times (n - 2) \times \cdots \times (n - k + 1) $$ The “n - k + 1” bit can be confusing, so take your time and think it through. For the golf tournament case, our highest term was 45 and our lowest term was 36. This is because n was 45 and k was 10, and so we only wanted to carry out the multiplication to 36 (not 35), and 36 is 45 - 10 + 1. This can be expressed more compactly in a few different ways. First, we can use factorials to represent it: $$ n \times (n - 1) \times (n - 2) \times \cdots \times (n - k + 1) = \frac{(n - k)!}{(n - k)!} \times (n - k) \times (n - k - 1) \times (n - k - 2) \times \cdots \times 1 = \frac{n!}{(n - k)!} $$ Also, we could use our compact product notation: $$ n \times (n - 1) \times (n - 2) \times \cdots \times (n - k + 1) = \prod_{i=0}^{k-1} (n - i). $$ Finally, as with (non-partial) permutations, this comes up so much that the professionals have invented a special notation for it. It looks like a power, but has an underline under the exponent: $$ n \times (n - 1) \times (n - 2) \times \cdots \times (n - k + 1) = n^{\underline{k}}. $$ #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 161 Context: # 6.2. PERMUTATIONS This is pronounced “n-to-the-k-falling,” and was invented by one of the most brilliant computer scientists in history, Donald Knuth. To keep straight what \( n^k \) means, think of it as the same as plain exponentiation, except that the product diminishes instead of staying the same. For example, “17-to-the-6th” is \[ 17^6 = 17 \cdot 17 \cdot 17 \cdot 17 \cdot 17 \cdot 17 \] but “17-to-the-6th-falling” is \[ 17^4 = 17 \cdot 16 \cdot 15 \cdot 14 \cdot 13 \cdot 12. \] In both cases, you’re multiplying the same number of terms; it’s just that in the second case, these terms are “falling.” Anyway, notation aside, partial permutations abound in practice. A late night movie channel might show four classic films back to back every evening. If there are 500 films in the studio’s library, how many nightly TV schedules are possible? Answer: \( 500^4 \) since there are 500 choices of what to show at 7 pm, then 499 choices for 9 pm, 498 for 11 pm, and 497 for the 1 am late show. The fastest 41 auto racers will qualify for Sunday’s race, and will be placed from Pole Position on down depending on their qualifying time. If 60 cars participate in the qualifying heat, then there are \( 60! \) different possible starting configurations for Sunday. Middle schoolers entering sixth grade will be assigned a semester schedule that consists of five “blocks” (periods), each of which will have one of thirteen classes (science, math, orchestra, study hall, etc.). How many schedules are possible? You guessed it, \( 13^5 \). Notice that this is the correct answer only because no repeats are allowed: we don’t want to schedule any student for American History more than once. If a student could take the same class more than once in a day, then there would be \( 13^5 \) (not “falling”) different possible schedules. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 163 Context: # 6.3. COMBINATIONS 1. Phil 2. Bubba 3. Tiger Another one is: 1. Phil 2. Tiger 3. Bubba and yet another is: 1. Tiger 2. Phil 3. Bubba Now the important thing to recognize is that in our present problem — counting the possible number of regional-bound golf trios — all three of these different partial permutations represent the same combination. In all three cases, it's Bubba, Phil, and Tiger who will represent our local golf association in the regional competition. So by counting all three of them as separate partial permutations, we've overcounted the combinations. Obviously, we want to count Bubba/Phil/Tiger only once. Okay then. How many times did we overcount it when we counted partial permutations? The answer is that we counted this trio once for every way it can be permuted. The three permutations, above, were examples of this, and so are these three: 1. Tiger 2. Bubba 3. Phil 1. Bubba 2. Tiger 3. Phil 1. Bubba 2. Phil 3. Tiger This makes a total of six times that we (redundantly) counted the same combination when we counted the partial permutations. Why 6? Because that's the value of 3!, of course. There are 3! different ways to arrange Bubba, Phil, and Tiger, since that's just a straight permutation of three elements. And so we find that every threesome we want to account for, we have counted 6 times. The way to get the correct answer, then, is obviously to correct for this overcounting by dividing by 6: \[ \frac{45 \times 44 \times 43}{3!} = \frac{45 \times 44 \times 43}{6} = 14,190 \text{ different threesomes.} \] #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 165 Context: ``` # 6.3. COMBINATIONS The coefficients for this binomial are of course 1 and 1, since "n" really means "1 . n." Now if we multiply this by itself, we get: $ (x + y) \cdot (x + y) = 2x^2 + 2xy + y^2 $, the coefficients of the terms being 1, 2, and 1. We do it again: $ (x^2 + 2xy + y^2) \cdot (x + y) = x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 $ to get 1, 3, 3, and 1, and do it again: $ (x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3) \cdot (x + y) = x^4 + 4x^3y + 6x^2y^2 + 4xy^3 + y^4 $ to get 1, 4, 6, and 4. At this point you might be having flashbacks to Pascal's triangle, which perhaps you learned about in grade school, in which each entry in a row is the sum of the two entries immediately above it (to the left and right), as in Figure 6.1. (If you never learned that, don't worry about it.) ``` 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 3 1 1 4 6 4 1 1 5 10 10 5 1 ``` **Figure 6.1:** The first six rows of Pascal's triangle. Now you might be wondering where I'm going with this. What do fun algebra tricks have to do with counting combinations of items? The answer is that the values of $ \binom{n}{k} $ are precisely the coefficients of these multiplied polynomials. Let n be 4, which corresponds to the last polynomial we multiplied out. We can then compute all the combinations of items taken from a group of four: - $ \binom{4}{0} = 1 $ - $ \binom{4}{1} = 4 $ - $ \binom{4}{2} = 6 $ - $ \binom{4}{3} = 4 $ - $ \binom{4}{4} = 1 $ In other words, there is exactly **one** way of taking no items out of 4 (you simply don't take any). There are **four** ways of taking one out of 4. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 168 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING We each do a quick 30-minute workout session divided into six 5-minute blocks, and we work with one of the machines during each block, taking turns spotting each other. One day my friend asks me, “Hey Stephen, have you ever wondered: how many different workout routines are possible for us?” I was, of course, wondering exactly that. But the correct answer turns out to hinge very delicately on exactly what “a workout routine” is. If we could select any weight machine for any 5-minute block, then the answer is \( 6^{18} \), since we have 18 choices for our first block, 18 choices for our second, and so on. (This comes to 34,012,224 different routines, if you’re interested.) However, on further inspection, we might change our mind about this. Does it make sense to choose the same machine more than once in a 30-minute workout? Would we really complete a workout that consisted of “1. Biceps, 2. Abs, 3. Pec, 4. Biceps, 5. Biceps, 6. Biceps?” If not (and most trainers would probably recommend against such monomanical approaches to exercise), then the real answer is only \( 6^{18} \), since we have 18 choices for our first block, and then only 17 for the second, 16 for the third, etc. (This reduces the total to 13,360,080.) But perhaps the phrase “a workout routine” means something different even than that. If I tell my physical therapist what “my workout routine” consisted of this morning, does he really care whether I did triceps first, last, or in the middle? He probably only cares about which machines (and therefore which muscle groups) I worked out that morning, not what order I did them in. If this is true, then our definition of a workout routine is somewhat different than before. It’s no longer a consecutive sequence of machines chosen, but rather a set of six machine choices. There would only \( \binom{6}{3} \) of those, or a mere 18,564. So as you can see, the answer radically depends on the precise interpretation of the concepts, which means that to successfully do combinatorics, you have to slow down and think very carefully. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 170 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING 1. Go back to when the child did have to choose something from each category, but now say they can choose any number of accessories (so they could have the wizard's cape, a batman helmet, plus a lightsaber, pipe, and scepter). Now how many costumes are there? This is \(4 \times 5 \times 2^n\), or a whopping 10,240 for those of you keeping score. The \(2^n\) changed to a \(2^n\) because now for each accessory, a costume might include it, or exclude it. That's two independent choices for each accessory. 2. Okay, that’s overkill. A kid only has two hands, after all, so handling nine accessories would be a disastrous challenge. Let’s say instead that a child can choose up to three accessories (but must have at least one). Now how many costume choices are there? Now it’s \(4 \times 5 \times \left( \binom{9}{1} + \binom{9}{2} + \binom{9}{3} \right)\), which is equal to \(4 \times 5 \times (9 + 36 + 84)\) or 2,580 possible costumes. 3. Ignoring the at-least-one-child-and-adult constraint for the moment, the total number of groups would seem to be \( \binom{7}{3} + \binom{7}{2} = 0 + 2380 + 6188 = 9,238 possible groups. But of course this is an overcount, since it includes groups with no children and groups with no adults. We’ll use the trick from p. 146 to subtract those out. Now how many size-3-to-5 groups with no adults (all kids) are there? \( \binom{3}{1} + \binom{3}{2} + \binom{3}{3} = 41\). Therefore, by the 14 trick, the total number of legal groups is 9248 - 957 - 41 = 8,250. Final answer. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 171 Context: # 6.5. EXERCISES 1. To encourage rivalry and gluttony, we're going to give a special certificate to the child who collects the most candy at the end of the night. And while we're at it, we'll give 2nd-place and 3rd-place certificates as well. How many different ways could our 1st-2nd-3rd contest turn out? **Answer:** This is a partial permutation: there are eleven possible winners, and ten possible runners-up for each possible winner, and nine possible 3rd-placers for each of those top two. The answer is therefore 114, or 900. Wow! I wouldn’t have guessed that high. 2. Finally, what if we want every kid to get a certificate with their name and place-of-finish on it? How many possibilities? (Assume no ties.) **Answer:** This is now a full-blown permutation: 111. It comes to 30,916,800 different orders-of-finish, believe it or not. I told you: this counting stuff can explode fast. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 173 Context: # Chapter 7 ## Numbers Wow, last chapter was about “counting,” and this one is about “numbers.” It sure seems like we’re regressing back to first grade or earlier. And indeed, this chapter will contain a repeat of some elementary school concepts! But this is so we can re-examine the foundations and generalize them somewhat. The mechanical processes you’ve always used with numbers — adding, subtracting, comparing, checking whether something divides evenly, working with place value — are all correct, but they’re all hard-coded for decimal numbers. The word “decimal,” in this chapter, won’t mean “a number with a decimal point,” like 5.62* but rather a number expressed in base 10. And what does “expressed in base 10” mean? It means that the digits, from right to left, represent a “one’s place,” a “ten’s place,” a “hundred’s place,” and so on. This is what we all learned in grade school, and perhaps you thought that’s just how numbers “were.” But it turns out that 1, 10, 1000, …, is just one choice of place values, and that we could equally as well choose many other things, like 1, 2, 4, 8, …, or 1, 16, 256, 4096, …, or even 1, 23, 529, 12167, …, as long as those values are of a certain type (successive powers of the base). It’s the concept of bases, and specifically bases other than 10, that will cause us to rethink some things. It’ll feel unnatural at first, but soon you’ll discover that there are aspects of how you work with numbers that are unnecessarily specific, and that it’s freeing. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 175 Context: # 7.1. WHAT IS A “NUMBER?” When you think of a number, I want you to try to erase the sequence of digits from your mind. Think of a number as what is: a **quantity**. Here's what the number seventeen really looks like: ``` 8 8 8 8 8 ``` It’s just an **amount**. There are more circles in that picture than in some pictures, and less than in others. But in no way is it “two digits,” nor do the particular digits “1” and “7” come into play any more or less than any other digits. Let’s keep thinking about this. Consider this number, which I’ll label “A”: (A) Now let’s add another circle to it, creating a different number I’ll call “B”: (B) And finally, we’ll do it one more time to get “C”: (C) (Look carefully at those images and convince yourself that I added one circle each time.) When going from A to B, I added one circle. When going from B to C, I also added one circle. Now I ask you: was going from B to C any more “significant” than going from A to B? Did anything qualitatively different happen? The answer is obviously no. Adding a circle is adding a circle; there’s nothing more to it than that. But if you had been writing #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 177 Context: # 7.2. BASES The largest quantity we can hold in one digit, before we’d need to “roll over” to two digits. In base 10 (decimal), we use ten symbols: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Consequently, the number nine is the highest value we can hold in a single digit. Once we add another element to a set of nine, we have no choice but to add another digit to express it. This makes a “ten’s place” because it will represent the number of sets-of-10 (which we couldn't hold in the 1's place) that the value contains. Now why is the next place over called the “hundred’s place” instead of, say, the “twenty’s place”? Simply because twenty — as well as every other number less than a hundred — comfortably fits in two digits. We can have up to 9 in the one’s place, and also up to 9 in the ten’s place, giving us a total of ninety-nine before we ever have to cave in to using three digits. The number one hundred is exactly the point at which we must roll over to three digits; therefore, the sequence of digits 1-0-0 represents one hundred. If the chosen base isn’t obvious from context (as it often won’t be in this chapter) then when we write out a sequence of digits we’ll append the base as a subscript to the end of the number. So the number “four hundred and thirty-seven” will be written as \( 437_{10} \). The way we interpret a decimal number, then, is by counting the right-most digits as a number of individuals, the digit to its left as the number of groups of ten individuals, and the digit to its left as the number of groups of hundred individuals, and so on. Therefore, \( 547_{20} \) is just a way of writing \( 5 \times 10^3 + 4 \times 10^2 + 7 \times 10^1 + 2 \times 10^0 \). By the way, we will often use the term **least significant digit** to refer to the right-most digit (2, in the above example), and **most significant digit** to refer to the left-most (5). “Significant” simply refers to how much that digit is “worth” in the overall magnitude. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 189 Context: # 7.4. BINARY (BASE 2) This is because the byte can be neatly split into two parts: `1000`, which corresponds to the hex digit `8`, and `0110`, which corresponds to the hex digit `6`. These two halves are called **nibbles**—one byte has two nibbles, and each nibble is one hex digit. At a glance, therefore, with no multiplying or adding, we can convert from binary to hex. Going the other direction is just as easy. If we have: `3E_{16}` we just convert each hex digit into the corresponding nibble: `00111110_{2}` After you do this a while, you get to the point where you can instantly recognize which hex digit goes with which nibble value. Until then, though, here's a handy table: | nibble | hex digit | |--------|-----------| | 0000 | 0 | | 0001 | 1 | | 0010 | 2 | | 0011 | 3 | | 0100 | 4 | | 0101 | 5 | | 0110 | 6 | | 0111 | 7 | | 1000 | 8 | | 1001 | 9 | | 1010 | A | | 1011 | B | | 1100 | C | | 1101 | D | | 1110 | E | | 1111 | F | In case you’re wondering, yes, this is worth memorizing. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 194 Context: # CHAPTER 7. NUMBERS From 0 to 1 (or vice versa) to get: ``` 01011001 ``` and then add one to the result: ``` 1 01011001 + 1 -------- 01011010 ``` This black magic produces the value `01101102`, which converts to \(-90\). This means that the original number, `10101110`, corresponds to the value \(-90\). “Flipping all the bits and adding one” is the cookbook procedure for taking the complement (negative) of a number in the two's-complement scheme. It works in reverse, too. Let’s start with \(90\) this time and crank through the process again, making sure we get \(-90\). Start with the binary representation of \(90\): ``` 01011010 ``` Flip all the bits to get: ``` 10100101 ``` and finally add one to the result: ``` 1 10100101 + 1 -------- 10100110 ``` We get `10100110`, which was precisely the number we originally began with, and which we have already determined represents \(-90\). Now you may ask what we gain from all this. Surely this scheme is considerably more convoluted than the simple idea of reserving one bit as a sign bit and treating the rest as a magnitude. But it turns out there is indeed a method to the madness. Strange as #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 200 Context: # 7.5 Exercises 1. If I told you that the decimal number (i.e., base-10 number) 2022 was equal to 13612, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? Yes, you should. Think about it: in base 6, each digit's place value (except the one's place) is worth less than it is in base 10. Instead of a ten's place, hundred's place, and thousand's place, we have a wavy six's place, thirty's place, and two-hundred-and-sixteen's place. So there's no way that a number whose base-6 digits are 1, 4, 1, and 3 would be as large as a number whose base-10 digits are 2, something, something, and something. Put another way, if the base is smaller, the number itself has to "look bigger" to have a chance of evening that out. 2. If I told you that the decimal number 2022 was equal to 1413, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? Yes, you should. Think about it: in base 6, each digit's place value (except the one's place) is worth less than it is in base 10. Instead of a ten's place, hundred's place, and thousand's place, we have a wavy six's place, thirty's place, and two-hundred-and-sixteen's place. So there's no way that a number whose base-6 digits are 1, 4, 1, and 3 would be as large as a number whose base-10 digits are 2, something, something, and something. Put another way, if the base is smaller, the number itself has to "look bigger" to have a chance of evening that out. 3. If I told you that the decimal number 2022 was equal to 5FA86, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? Yes, you should, because of the mirror reflection of the above logic. Every digit of a hexadecimal number (again, except the one's place) is worth more than it is in base 10. So a four-digit hex number beginning with an 8 is going to be way bigger than a wimpy four-digit decimal number beginning with 2. 4. If I told you that the decimal number 2022 was equal to 1230, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? No, you shouldn't, because you do have to think hard for this one. As it happens, I am a liar (the true answer is 12310), but there's no easy way to know that at a glance. 5. If I told you that the decimal number 2022 was equal to 7E6, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? No, you shouldn't, because you do have to think hard for this one. (And in fact, it's correct! Work it out.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 202 Context: # CHAPTER 7. NUMBERS 12. Are the numbers 617,418 and 617,424 congruent mod 37? Yes. The number 617,418 is exactly 6 less than 617,424. Let's say there are k stones left over after removing groups of three from 617,418. (k must be 0, 1, or 2, of course.) Now if we did the same remove-groups-of-three thing but starting with 617,424 instead, we'll have two more groups of three than we did before, but then also have exactly k stones left over. 13. Are the numbers 617,418 and 617,424 congruent mod 2? Yes. The number 617,418 is exactly 6 less than 617,424. If there are k stones left over after removing pairs of stones from 617,418, we'd get three additional pairs if we had instead started with 617,424, but then also have exactly k stones left over. 14. Are the numbers 617,418 and 617,424 congruent mod 57? No. Five doesn’t go evenly into six. 15. Are the numbers 617,418 and 617,424 congruent mod 67? Yes. The number 617,418 is exactly 6 less than 617,424. If there are k stones left over after removing groups of six from 617,418, we’d get one additional group if we had instead started with 617,424, and then have exactly k stones left over. 16. What’s 11₁₆ + 2₉? 3₁₆. 17. What’s 11₁₆ + 9₉? 16₁₆. 18. What’s 1₁₆ + 1₈ + E₂₆? A₁₆. 19. What’s 1₁₆ + F₁₆? 10₁₆. (This is the first time we've had to "carry".) 20. What’s 11₁₆ + 22₉? 33₁₆. 21. What’s 11₁₆ + 99₉? AA₁₆. 22. What’s 11₁₆ + EF₁₆? 100₁₆. (As in exercise 19, we must carry.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 204 Context: I'm unable to process images directly. However, if you provide the text you want to format in Markdown, I can certainly help you fix any formatting issues. Please paste the text here. Image Analysis: ### Image Analysis Report **Localization and Attribution:** - The image appears to be a single diagram located at the center of the page. - It is referred to as **Image 1**. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Objects Detected:** - Boxes/rectangles connected by arrows. - Icons inside some boxes. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Scene Description:** - The image is a flowchart depicting a process. It contains several boxes connected by arrows, representing a step-by-step procedure. - **Activities:** - The flowchart likely represents a sequence of tasks or decisions, as indicated by the directional arrows. **Text Analysis:** - **Detected Text:** - Box 1: "Start" - Box 2: "Input Data" - Box 3: "Process Data" - Box 4: "Output Data" - Box 5: "End" - **Text Content Analysis:** - The text describes a straightforward process flow where data is input, processed, and then output before concluding. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - **Diagram Analysis:** - The flowchart is visually structured to guide the reader from the starting point of a process to its conclusion. - Arrows indicate the direction of the flow, ensuring clarity in the process order. - **Key Insights:** - The process is linear and simple, involving data manipulation from input to processing and finally output. **Perspective and Composition:** - **Perspective:** - The image is presented from a direct, front-facing view to ensure readability and clarity. - **Composition:** - The boxes are symmetrically aligned and uniformly spaced, with arrows guiding the flow from one step to the next. **Contextual Significance:** - **Overall Contribution:** - The image contributes as a simplified visual representation of a process or procedure, likely serving as a quick reference for understanding the sequence of steps involved. **Tables:** - **Tabular Data Analysis:** - No tables are included in the image. ### Summary **Image 1** features a flowchart that describes a step-by-step process involving the input, processing, and output of data, concluding with an end step. The text provides clear labels for each step, and the arrows create a discernible flow from start to end. The perspective and composition facilitate easy understanding of the process being depicted. There are no additional anomalies or metadata information to analyze from the image. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 206 Context: # CHAPTER 8. LOGIC A statement that has a "truth value," which means that it is either true or false. The statement "all plants are living beings" could be a proposition, as could "Barack Obama was the first African-American President" and "Kim Kardashian will play the title role in Thor: Love and Thunder." By contrast, questions like "are you okay?" cannot be propositions, nor can commands like "hurry up and answer already!" or phrases like "Lynn's newborn schnauzer," because they are not statements that can be true or false. (Linguistically speaking, propositions have to be in the indicative mood.) We normally use capital letters (what else?) to denote propositions, like: - Let **A** be the proposition that UMW is in Virginia. - Let **B** be the proposition that the King of England is female. - Let **C** be the proposition that dogs are carnivores. Don't forget that a proposition doesn't have to be true in order to be a valid proposition (B is still a proposition, for example). It just matters that it is labeled and that it has the potential to be true or false. Propositions are considered atomic. This means that they are indivisible: to the logic system itself, or to a computer program, they are simply an opaque chunk of truth (or falsity) called "A" or whatever. When we humans read the description of A, we realize that it has to do with the location of a particular institution of higher education, and with the state of the union that it might reside (or not reside) in. All this is invisible to an artificially intelligent agent, however, which treats "A" as nothing more than a stand-in label for a statement that has no further discernible structure. So things are pretty boring so far. We can define and label propositions, but none of them have any connections to the others. We change that by introducing logical operators (also called logical connectives) with which we can build up compound constructions out of multiple propositions. The six connectives we’ll learn are: #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 215 Context: # 8.1. Propositional Logic | X | Y | Z | ¬Z | X∨Y | ¬X∨Y | ¬Z∨Z | X∧Z | (¬X∧Z) | (X∧¬Z) | |---|---|---|----|-----|-------|-------|------|---------|--------| | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | *Here, **♢** stands for ¬(X∧Y)∧(X∧Z)* *Here, **☐** stands for ¬(X∧Y)∨(X∧¬Z)* --- (If you’re looking for some practice, cranking through this example on your own and then comparing your answers to the above truth table isn’t a bad idea at all.) You’ll notice that the “answer” column has all 1’s. This means that the expression is always true, no matter what the values of the individual propositions are. Such an expression is called a tautology: it’s always true. The word “tautology” has a negative connotation in regular English usage; it refers to a statement so obvious as to not tell you anything, like “all triangles have three sides,” or “the fatal overdose was deadly.” But in logic, tautologies are quite useful, since they represent reliable identities. The tautology above was a contrived example, and not useful in practice. Here are some important others, though: | X | ¬X | X∨¬X | |---|----|------| | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | Sometimes called the **law of the excluded middle**, this identity states that either a proposition or its negative will always be true. (There is no third option.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 219 Context: # 8.2. Predicate Logic which is perfectly true[^1]. You may recall the word "predicate" from your middle school grammar class. Every sentence, remember, has a subject and a predicate. In “Billy jumps,” “Billy” is the subject, and “jumps” the predicate. In “The lonely boy ate spaghetti with gusto,” we have “the lonely boy” as the subject and “ate spaghetti with gusto” as the predicate. Basically, a predicate is anything that can describe or affirm something about a subject. Imagine asserting “JUMPS(Billy)” and “ATESPAGHETTIWITHGUSTO(lonely boy).” A predicate can have more than one input. Suppose we define the predicate `IsFanOf` as follows: Let `IsFanOf(x, y)` be the proposition that x digs the music of rock band y. Then I can assert: - `IsFanOf(Stephen, Led Zeppelin)` - `IsFanOf(Rachel, The Beatles)` - `IsFanOf(Stephen, The Beatles)` - `¬IsFanOf(Stephen, The Rolling Stones)` We could even define `TraveledToByModeInYear` with a bunch of inputs: Let `TraveledToByModeInYear(p, d, m, y)` be the proposition that person p traveled to destination d by mode m in year y. The following statements are then true: - `TraveledToByModeInYear(Stephen, Richmond, car, 2017)` > "By the way, when I say you can give any input at all to a predicate, I mean any individual element from the domain of discourse. I don’t mean that a set of elements can be an input. This limitation is why it’s called ‘first-order’ predicate logic. If you allow sets to be inputs to predicates, it’s called ‘second-order predicate logic’, and can get quite messy." [^1]: The footnote text if needed. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 223 Context: # 8.2. PREDICATE LOGIC It’s common practice to negate quantifiers, both universal and existential. As of 2022, the following statement is still true: ¬∃p PRESIDENT(p) ∧ FEMALE(p). This conveys that there does not exist a female president. As another example, if one day Missouri overhauls its government structure and replaces it with a mobocracy, perhaps we’ll state: ¬∀x HasGovernor(x). ## Interchanging Quantifiers Some illuminating themes can be seen when we examine the relationship that the two types of quantifiers have to each other. Consider this one first: ∀x P(x) ⇔ ¬∃x ¬P(x). (8.1) where P is any predicate (or for that matter, any expression involving many predicates). That’s sensible. It states: “if P is true of all things, then there does not exist anything that isn’t true for.” Three other equivalences come to light: 1. ∀x P(x) ⇔ ∃x ¬P(x). (8.2) 2. ∀x ¬P(x) ⇔ ∃x P(x). (8.3) 3. ¬∀x ¬P(x) ⇔ ∃x P(x). (8.4) In words, identity 8.2 says “if it’s not true for everything, then it must be false for something.” Identity 8.3 says “if it’s false for everything, then it must be true for something.” Identity 8.4 says “if it’s not false for everything, then it must be true for something.” All of these are eminently logical, I think you’ll agree. They also imply that there are nearly multiple correct ways to state something. In our apocalyptic vision of Missouri, for example, we stated “¬∀x HasGovernor(x),” but we could just as well have stated “∃x ¬HasGovernor(x),” which amounts to the same thing. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 226 Context: # Chapter 8: Logic Here's a funny one I’ll end with. Consider the sentence **“He made her duck.”** What is intended here? Did some guy reach out with his hand and forcefully push a woman’s head down out of the way of a screaming projectile? Or did he prepare a succulent dish of roasted fowl to celebrate her birthday? Oh, if the computer could only know. If we’d used predicate logic instead of English, it could! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 227 Context: # 8.3 Exercises Let \( B \) be the proposition that Joe Biden was elected president in 2020, \( C \) be the proposition that Covid-19 was completely and permanently eradicated from the earth in 2021, and \( R \) be the proposition that *Roe v. Wade* was overturned in 2022. 1. What’s \( B \land C \)? **False.** 2. What’s \( B \land C' \)? **True.** 3. What’s \( A \land R \)? **True.** 4. What’s \( A \land R' \)? **False.** 5. What’s \( \neg C \lor R \)? **True.** 6. What’s \( \neg(C \lor R')? \) **False.** 7. What’s \( \neg(C \lor R) \)? **True.** 8. What’s \( \neg C \land B \)? **False.** 9. What’s \( C \land B' \)? **True.** 10. What’s \( \neg C \to B \)? **False.** 11. What’s \( \neg\neg\neg B \)? **True.** 12. What’s \( \neg B' \)? **False.** 13. What’s \( \neg\neg\neg C' \)? **True.** 14. What’s \( B \lor C \lor R \)? **True.** 15. What’s \( B \land C \land R'? \) **False.** 16. What’s \( B \land C \land R \)? **True.** (Even though there is plainly no causality there.) 17. What’s \( B \to R? \) **True.** (Ditto.) 18. What’s \( R \to B? \) **False.** (The premise is true, so the conclusion must also be true for this sentence to be true.) 19. What’s \( B \to C? \) **True.** (The premise is true, so all bets are off and the sentence is true.) 20. What’s \( C \to B? \) **True.** (The premise is false, so all bets are off and the sentence is true.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 233 Context: # 9.1. PROOF CONCEPTS The phone is in my pocket, and has not rung, and I conclude that the plan has not changed. I look at my watch, and it reads 5:17 pm, which is earlier than the time they normally leave, so I know I'm not going to catch them walking out the door. This is, roughly speaking, my thought process that justifies the conclusion that the house will be empty when I pull into the garage. Notice, however, that this prediction depends precariously on several facts. What if I spaced out the day of the week, and this is actually Thursday? All bets are off. What if my cell phone battery has run out of charge? Then perhaps they did try to call me but couldn’t reach me. What if I set my watch wrong and it’s actually 4:17 pm? Etc. Just like a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a whole proof falls apart if even one step isn’t reliable. Knowledge bases in artificial intelligence systems are designed to support these chains of reasoning. They contain statements expressed in formal logic that can be examined to deduce only the new facts that logically follow from the old. Suppose, for instance, that we had a knowledge base that currently contained the following facts: 1. \( A = C \) 2. \( \neg (C \land D) \) 3. \( (F \lor E) \to D \) 4. \( A \lor B \) These facts are stated in propositional logic, and we have no idea what any of the propositions really mean, but then neither does the computer, so hey. Fact #1 tells us that if proposition A (whatever that may be) is true, then we know C is true as well. Fact #2 tells us that we know CAD is false, which means at least one of the two must be false. And so on. Large knowledge bases can contain thousands or even millions of such expressions. It’s a complete record of everything the system “knows.” Now suppose we learn an additional fact: \( \neg B \). In other words, the system interacts with its environment and comes to the conclusion. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 235 Context: ``` 9.2 TYPES OF PROOF ================== to be true, and so it is legal grounds from which to start. A proof can't even get off the ground without axioms. For instance, in step 1 of the above proof, we noted that either A or B must be true, and so if B isn't true, then A must be. But we couldn't have taken this step without knowing that disjunctive syllogism is a valid form of reasoning. It's not important to know all the technical names of the rules that I included in parentheses. But it is important to see that we made use of an axiom of reasoning on every step, and that if any of those axioms were incorrect, it could lead to a faulty conclusion. When you create a valid proof, the result is a new bit of knowledge called a theorem which can be used in future proofs. Think of a theorem like a subroutine in programming: a separate bit of code that does a job and can be invoked at will in the course of doing other things. One theorem we learned in chapter 2 was the distributive property of sets; that is, \( X \cap (Y \cup Z) = (X \cap Y) \cup (X \cap Z) \). This can be proven through the use of Venn diagrams, but once you've proven it, it's accepted to be true, and can be used as a "given" in future proofs. ## 9.2 Types of Proof There are a number of accepted "styles" of doing proofs. Here are some important ones: ### Direct Proof The examples we've used up to now have been direct proofs. This is where you start from what's known and proceed directly by positive steps towards your conclusion. Direct proofs remind me of a game called "word ladders," invented by Lewis Carroll, that you might have played as a child: ``` WARM | | ? ? ? ? | | COLD ``` ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 236 Context: # CHAPTER 9. PROOF ## COLD You start with one word (like **WARM**) and you have to come up with a sequence of words, each of which differs from the previous by only one letter, such that you eventually reach the ending word (like **COLD**). It's sort of like feeling around in the dark: - **WARM** - **WART** - **WALT** - **WILT** - **WILD** - ... This attempt seemed promising at first, but now it looks like it's going nowhere. ("**WOLD?**" "**CILD?**" Hmm...) After starting over and playing around with it for a while, you might stumble upon: - **WARM** - **WORM** - **WORD** - **CORD** - **COLD** This turned out to be a pretty direct path: for each step, the letter we changed was exactly what we needed it to be for the target word **COLD**. Sometimes, though, you have to meander away from the target a little bit to find a solution, like going from **BLACK** to **WHITE**: - **BLACK** - **CLACK** - **CRACK** - **TRACK** - **TRICK** - **TRICE** #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 239 Context: # 9.3 Proof by Induction sides of the equation (a perfectly legal thing to do): \[ \left(\frac{a}{b}\right)^2 = \sqrt{2} \] \[ \frac{a^2}{b^2} = (\sqrt{2})^2 \] \[ a^2 = 2 \] \[ a^2 = 2b^2. \] Now if \(a^2\) equals 2 times something, then \(a^2\) is an even number. But \(a^2\) can’t be even unless itself is even. (Think hard about that one.) This proves, then, that \(a\) is even. Very well. It must be equal to twice some other integer. Let’s call that \(c\). We know that \(a = 2c\), where \(c\) is another integer. Substitute that into the last equation and we get: \[ (2c)^2 = 2b^2 \] \[ 4c^2 = 2b^2 \] \[ 2c^2 = b^2. \] So it looks like \(b^2\) must be an even number as well (since it’s equal to 2 times something), and therefore \(b\) is also even. But wait a minute. We started by saying that \(a\) and \(b\) had no common factor. And now we’ve determined that they’re both even numbers! This means they both have a factor of 2, which contradicts what we started with. The only thing we introduced that was questionable was the notion that there are two integers \(a\) and \(b\) whose ratio was equal to \(\sqrt{2}\) to begin with. That must be the part that’s faulty then. Therefore, \(\sqrt{2}\) is not an irrational number. Q.E.D. ## 9.3 Proof by Induction One of the most powerful methods of proof — and one of the most difficult to wrap your head around — is called mathematical induction, or just “induction” for short. I like to call it “proof by induction.” #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 243 Context: # 9.3. PROOF BY INDUCTION Let’s look back at that inductive step, because that’s where all the action is. It’s crucial to understand what that step does *not* say. It doesn’t say “Vote(k) is true for some number k.” If it did, then since k’s value is arbitrary at that point, we would basically be assuming the very thing we were supposed to prove, which is circular reasoning and extremely unconvincing. But that’s not what we did. Instead, we made the inductive hypothesis and said, “okay then, let’s assume for a second a 40-year-old can vote. We don’t know for sure, but let’s say she can. Now, if that’s indeed true, can a 41-year-old also vote?” The answer is yes. We might have said, “okay then, let’s assume for a second a 7-year-old can vote. We don’t know for sure, but let’s say she can. Now, if that’s indeed true, can an 8-year-old also vote?” The answer is yes. Note carefully that we did not say that 8-year-olds can vote! We merely said that if 7-year-olds can, why then 8-year-olds must be able to as well. Remember that X → Y is true if either X is false or Y is true (or both). In the 7-year-old example, the premise X turns out to be false, so this doesn’t rule out our implication. The result is a row of falling dominoes, up to whatever number we wish. Say we want to verify that a 25-year-old can vote. Can we be sure? Well: 1. If a 24-year-old can vote, then that would sure prove it (by the inductive step). 2. So now we need to verify that a 24-year-old can vote. Can he? Well, if a 23-year-old can vote, then that would sure prove it (by the inductive step). 3. Now everything hinges on whether a 23-year-old can vote. Can he? Well, if a 22-year-old can vote, then that would sure prove it (by the inductive step). 4. So it comes down to whether a 22-year-old can vote. Can he? Well, if a 21-year-old can vote, then that would sure prove it (by the inductive step). 5. And now we need to verify whether a 21-year-old can vote. Can he? Yes (by the base case). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 244 Context: # Example 2 A famous story tells of Carl Friedrich Gauss, perhaps the most brilliant mathematician of all time, getting in trouble one day as a schoolboy. As punishment, he was sentenced to tedious work: adding together all the numbers from 1 to 100. To his teacher's astonishment, he came up with the correct answer in a moment, not because he was quick at adding integers, but because he recognized a trick. The first number on the list (1) and the last (100) add up to 101. So do 3 and 98, and so do 4 and 97, etc., all the way up to 50 and 51. So really what you have here is 50 different sums of 101 each, so the answer is \( 50 \times 101 = 5050 \). In general, if you add the numbers from 1 to \( x \), where \( x \) is any integer at all, you'll get \( \frac{x(x + 1)}{2} \). Now, use mathematical induction to prove that Gauss was right (i.e., that \( \sum_{i=1}^{x} i = \frac{x(x + 1)}{2} \)) for all numbers \( x \). First, we have to cast our problem as a predicate about natural numbers. This is easy: say “let \( P(n) \) be the proposition that \[ \sum_{i=1}^{n} i = \frac{n(n + 1)}{2} \] Then, we satisfy the requirements of induction: 1. **Base Case**: We prove that \( P(1) \) is true simply by plugging it in. Setting \( n = 1 \), we have: \[ \sum_{i=1}^{1} i = \frac{1(1 + 1)}{2} \] \[ 1 = \frac{1(2)}{2} \] \[ 1 = 1 \quad \text{✓} \] 2. **Inductive Step**: We now must prove that \( P(k) \) implies \( P(k + 1) \). Put another way, we assume \( P(k) \) is true, and then use that assumption to prove that \( P(k + 1) \) is also true. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 245 Context: # 9.3. PROOF BY INDUCTION Let’s be crystal clear where we’re going with this. Assuming that \( P(k) \) is true means we can count on the fact that \[ 1 + 2 + 3 + \cdots + k = \frac{k(k + 1)}{2} \] What we need to do, then, is prove that \( P(k + 1) \) is true, which amounts to proving that \[ 1 + 2 + 3 + \cdots + (k + 1) = \frac{(k + 1)(k + 2)}{2} \] Very well. First we make the inductive hypothesis, which allows us to assume: \[ 1 + 2 + 3 + \cdots + k = \frac{k(k + 1)}{2} \] The rest is just algebra. We add \( k + 1 \) to both sides of the equation, then multiply things out and factor it all together. Watch carefully: \[ 1 + 2 + 3 + \cdots + k + (k + 1) = \frac{k(k + 1)}{2} + (k + 1) \] \[ = \frac{k^2}{2} + \frac{1}{2}(k + 1) + (k + 1) \] \[ = \frac{k^2}{2} + \frac{3}{2}(k + 1) \] \[ = \frac{k^2 + 3k + 2}{2} \] \[ = \frac{(k + 1)(k + 2)}{2} \] Therefore, \( \forall n \geq 1 \, P(n) \). ## Example 3 Another algebra one. You learned in middle school that \( (ab)^n = a^n b^n \). Prove this by mathematical induction. **Solution:** Let \( P(n) \) be the proposition that \( (ab)^n = a^n b^n \). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 247 Context: # 9.3. Proof by Induction ## Example 4 Let’s switch gears and talk about structures. Prove that the number of leaves in a perfect binary tree is one more than the number of internal nodes. **Solution:** Let \( P(n) \) be the proposition that a perfect binary tree of height \( n \) has one more leaf than internal node. That is, if \( l_n \) is the number of leaves in a tree of height \( k \), and \( i_k \) is the number of internal nodes in a tree of height \( k \), let \( P(n) \) be the proposition that \( l_n = i_n + 1 \). 1. **Base case:** We prove that \( P(0) \) is true simply by inspection. If we have a tree of height 0, then it has only one node (the root). This sole node is a leaf, and is not an internal node. So this tree has 1 leaf and 0 internal nodes, and so \( l_0 = i_0 + 1 \). ✓ 2. **Inductive step:** We now must prove that \( P(k) \) implies \( P(k + 1) \). Put another way, we assume \( P(k) \) is true, and then use that assumption to prove that \( P(k + 1) \) is also true. Let’s be crystal clear where we’re going with this. Assuming that \( P(k) \) is true means we can count on the fact that \[ l_k = i_k + 1. \] What we need to do, then, is prove that \( P(k + 1) \) is true, which amounts to proving that \[ l_{k + 1} = i_{k + 1} + 1. \] We begin by noting that the number of nodes on level \( k \) of a perfect binary tree is \( 2^k \). (This is because the root is only one node, it has two children (giving 2 nodes on level 1), both those children then have two children (giving 4 nodes on level 2), all four of those children have two children (giving 8 nodes on level 3), etc.). Therefore, \[ l_{k + 1} = l_k + l_k = 2l_k. \] Further, we observe that \( i_{k + 1} = i_k + l_k \): this is just how trees work. Suppose we have a perfect binary tree of height \( k \). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 250 Context: # CHAPTER 9. PROOF It can obviously be written as just itself, which is the product of one prime. (23 can be written as "23".) But suppose it's not. Then, it can be broken down as the product of two numbers, each less than itself. (21 can be broken down as 7 * 3; 24 can be broken down as 6 * 4 or 12 * 2 or 8 * 3, take your pick.) Now we know nothing special about those two numbers... except the fact that the inductive hypothesis tells us that all numbers less than \( k + 1 \) are expressible as the product of one or more primes! So these two numbers, whatever they may be, are expressible as the product of primes, and so when you multiply them together to get \( k + 1 \), you will have a longer string of primes multiplied together. Therefore, \((\forall k < P(k)) \Rightarrow P(k + 1)\). ## Conclusion Therefore, by the strong form of mathematical induction, \(\forall n \geq 2 \, P(n)\). You can see why we needed the strong form here. If we wanted to prove that 15 is expressible as the product of primes, knowing that 14 is expressible as the product of primes doesn't do us a lick of good. What we needed to know was that 5 and 3 were expressible in that way. In general, the strong form of induction is useful when you have to break something into smaller parts, but there's no guarantee that the parts will be “one less” than the original. You only know that they'll be smaller than the original. A similar example follows. ## Example 2 Earlier (p. 111) we stated that every tree has one less edge than node. Prove it. Let \( P(n) \) be the proposition that a free tree with \( n \) nodes has \( n - 1 \) edges. 1. **Base case.** \( P(1) \) is true, since a free tree with 1 node is just a single lonely node, and has no edges. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 252 Context: # 9.4 Final Word Finding proofs is an art. In some ways, it’s like programming: you have a set of building blocks, each one defined very precisely, and your goal is to figure out how to assemble those blocks into a structure that starts with only axioms and ends with your conclusion. It takes skill, patience, practice, and sometimes a little bit of luck. Many mathematicians spend years pursuing one deeply difficult proof, like Appel and Haken who finally cracked the infamous four-color map problem in 1976, or Andrew Wiles who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1994. Some famous mathematical properties may never have proofs, such as Christian Goldbach’s 1742 conjecture that every even integer is the sum of two primes; or the most elusive and important question in computing theory: does P=NP? (Put very simply: if you consider the class of problems where it’s easy to verify a solution once you have it, but crazy hard to find it in the first place, is there actually an easy algorithm for finding the solution that we just haven’t figured out yet?) Most computer scientists think “no,” but despite a mind-boggling number of hours invested by the brightest minds in the world, no one has ever been able to prove it one way or the other. Most practicing computer scientists spend time taking advantage of the known results about mathematical objects and structures, and rarely (if ever) have to construct a watertight proof about them. For the more theoretically-minded student, however, who enjoys probing the basis behind the tools and speculating about additional properties that might exist, devising proofs is an essential skill that can also be very rewarding. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 254 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 9. PROOF - Cantor, Georg, 7, 12, 17 - capacity (of a byte), 182 - cardinality (of sets), 16, 25, 28, 66 - Carroll, Lewis, 227 - carry-in, 189 - carry-out, 189 - Cartesian product (of sets), - 19, 35 - chess, 114 - child (of a node), 115 - closed interval, 61 - codomain (of a function), 45 - collectively exhaustive, 26 - combinations, 154 - combinators, 25, 141 - commutative, 18, 20, 71 - compilers, 114 - complement laws (of sets), - 21 - complement, partial (of sets), - 18 - complement, total (of sets), - 18, 65, 146, 162 - complete binary tree, 121 - conclusion (of implication), 200 - conditional probability, - 68, 72, 74, 78 - congruent, 173 - conjunction, 199, 208 - connected (vertices/graphs), - 89, 95 - coordinates, 15 - curly brace notation, 11 - cycles, 90 ## DAGs (directed acyclic graphs), 90 - data structures, 85 - Davies family, 8, 9, 26, 147, 154 - De Morgan's laws, 21, 22, 207, 208 - decimal numbers, 165, 169, 173, 178 - degree (of a vertex), 90 - depth (of a node), 115 - dequeuing, 95 - descendant (of a node), 115 - DFT (depth-first traversal), 99, 101 ## Dijkstra's algorithm, 101, 104 - Dijkstra, Edsger, 101 - direct proof, 227 - directed graphs, 88, 91 - disjunction, 199, 208, 226 - disjunctive syllogism, 226 - disk sectors, 156 - distributive, 20, 208, 227 - domain (of a function), 45 - domain of discourse (?), 9, - 19, 21, 27, 60, 210 - domination laws (of sets), 21 - dominors, 234 - drinking age, 232, 234 - duplicates (in sets), 13 - edges, 86, 87 - elements (of sets), 8, 15, 23 - ellipses, 12 - empty graph, 87 - empty set, 9, 16, 21, 24, 25, - 36, 114 - endorelations, 38, 93 ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 257 Context: 9.4. FINAL WORD ================= - ordered triples, 15 - org charts, 113 - outcomes, 60, 62 - overflow, 188 P = NP?, 244 parent (of a node), 114 partial orders, 43 partial permutations, 151, 154 partitions, 26, 71, 94 Pascal's triangle, 157 passwords, 146 paths (in a graph), 88, 113 perfect binary tree, 122, 239 permutations, 147 PINs, 143 poker, 160 pop (off a stack), 99 posts, 43 post-order traversal, 118 postulates, 226 power sets, 24, 36 pre-order traversal, 117 predicates, 210, 211, 232 predicate logic, 210 premise (of implication), 200 Prim's algorithm, 107 Prime, Robert, 107 prior probability, 68 probability measures, 61, 63, 65 product operator (II), 142, 160 proof, 223 proof by contradiction, 229 propositional logic, 197, 225 propositions, 197, 210 - psychology, 70, 86 - push (on a stack), 99 - quantifiers, 212, 215 - queue, 95, 97 - quotient, 173, 174 - range (of a function), 48 - rational numbers (ℝ), 17, 24 - reachable, 89 - real numbers (ℝ), 71, 94 - rebalancing (a tree), 132 - recursion, 116, 120, 149, 231 - red-black trees, 133 - reflexive (relation), 40, 43 - relations, finite, 39 - relations, infinite, 39 - remainder, 173, 174 - right child, 116 - root (of a tree), 112, 114 - rooted trees, 112, 134 - Russell's paradox, 15 - sample space (Ω), 60 - semantic network, 87 - set operators, 18 - set-builder notation, 11 - sets, 8, 93 - sets of sets, 15 - sets, finite, 12 - sets, fuzzy, 10 - sets, infinite, 12 - sibling (of a node), 115 - signs-magnitude binary numbers, 183, 189 **Sonic the Hedgehog**, 73 - southern states, 72 - spatial positioning, 92, 113 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: I'm unable to assist with that. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: # LEARNING AND INTUITION Baroque features or a more “dull” representation, whatever works. Some scientists have been asked to describe how they represent abstract ideas and they invariably seem to entertain some type of visual representation. A beautiful account of this in the case of mathematicians can be found in a marvelous book “XXX” (Hardamard). By building accurate visual representations of abstract ideas, we create a database of knowledge in the unconscious. This collection of ideas forms the basis for what we call intuition. I often find myself listening to a talk and feeling uneasy about what is presented. The reason seems to be that the abstract idea I am trying to capture from the talk clashed with a similar idea that is already stored. This in turn can be a sign that I either misunderstood the idea before and need to update it, or that there is actually something wrong with what is being presented. In a similar way, I can easily detect that some idea is a small perturbation of what I already knew (I feel happily bored), or something entirely new (I feel intrigued and slightly frustrated). While the novice is continuously challenged and often feels overwhelmed, the more experienced researcher feels at ease 90% of the time because the “new” idea was already in his/her database which therefore needs no and very little updating. Somehow our unconscious mind can also manipulate existing abstract ideas into new ones. This is what we usually think of as creative thinking. One can stimulate this by seeding the mind with a problem. This is a conscious effort and is usually a combination of detailed mathematical derivations and building an intuitive picture or metaphor for the thing one is trying to understand. If you focus enough time and energy on this process and walk home for lunch, you’ll find that you’ll still be thinking about it in a much more vague fashion: you review and create visual representations of the problem. Then you get your mind off the problem altogether and when you walk back to work, suddenly parts of the solution surface into consciousness. Somehow, your unconscious took over and kept working on your problem. The essence is that you created visual representations as the building blocks for the unconscious mind to work with. In any case, whatever the details of this process are (and I am no psychologist), I suspect that any good explanation should include both an intuitive part, including examples, metaphors and visualizations, and a precise mathematical part where every equation and derivation is properly explained. This then is the challenge I have set to myself. It will be your task to insist on understanding the abstract idea that is being conveyed and build your own personalized visual representations. I will try to assist in this process but it is ultimately you who will have to do the hard work. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: Many people may find this somewhat experimental way to introduce students to new topics counter-productive. Undoubtedly for many it will be. If you feel under-challenged and become bored, I recommend moving on to the more advanced textbooks, of which there are many excellent samples on the market (for a list see [books](#)). But I hope that for most beginning students, this intuitive style of writing may help to gain a deeper understanding of the ideas that I will present in the following. Above all, have fun! #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 21 Context: # Data Visualization Techniques Distributions that have heavy tails relative to Gaussian distributions are important to consider. Another criterion is to find projections onto which the data has multiple modes. A more recent approach is to project the data onto a potentially curved manifold. ## Scatter Plots Scatter plots are of course not the only way to visualize data. It's a creative exercise, and anything that helps enhance your understanding of the data is allowed in this game. To illustrate, I will give a few examples from a variety of techniques: 1. **Histogram**: A useful way to represent the distribution of a dataset. 2. **Box Plot**: Provides a visual summary of the median, quartiles, and outliers. 3. **Heatmap**: Displays data values in a matrix format using colors for easy interpretation. 4. **Line Graph**: Ideal for showing trends over time. Feel free to explore different methods to find what best enhances your comprehension of the dataset. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 38 Context: # CHAPTER 6. THE NAIVE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER An example of the traffic that it generates: the University of California Irvine receives on the order of 2 million spam emails a day. Fortunately, the bulk of these emails (approximately 97%) is filtered out or dumped into your spam box and will reach your attention. How is this done? Well, it turns out to be a classic example of a classification problem: spam or ham, that’s the question. Let’s say that spam will receive a label 1 and ham a label 0. Our task is thus to label each new email with either 0 or 1. What are the attributes? Rephrasing this question, what would you measure in an email to see if it is spam? Certainly, if I read “viagra” in the subject I would stop right there and dump it in the spam box. What else? Here are a few: “enlargement,” “cheap,” “buy,” “pharmacy,” “money,” “loan,” “mortgage,” “credit,” and so on. We can build a dictionary of words that we can detect in each email. This dictionary could also include word phrases such as “buy now,” “penis enlargement,” one can make phrases as sophisticated as necessary. One could measure whether the words or phrases appear at least once or one could count the actual number of times they appear. Spammers know about the way these spam filters work and counteract by slight misspellings of certain key words. Hence we might also want to detect words like “via gra” and so on. In fact, a small arms race has ensued where spam filters and spam generators find tricks to counteract the tricks of the “opponent.” Putting all these subtleties aside for a moment we’ll simply assume that we measure a number of these attributes for every email in a dataset. We’ll also assume that we have spam/ham labels for these emails, which were acquired by someone removing spam emails by hand from his/her inbox. Our task is then to train a predictor for spam/ham labels for future emails where we have access to attributes but not to labels. The NB model is what we call a "generative" model. This means that we imagine how the data was generated in an abstract sense. For emails, this works as follows, an imaginary entity first decides how many spam and ham emails it will generate on a daily basis. Say, it decides to generate 40% spam and 60% ham. We will assume this doesn’t change with time (of course it doesn’t, but we will make this simplifying assumption for now). It will then decide what the chance is that a certain word appears \( x \) times in a spam email. For example, the word “viagra” has a chance of 96% to not appear at all, 1% to appear once, 0.9% to appear twice, etc. These probabilities are clearly different for spam and ham. “Viagra” should have a much smaller probability to appear in a ham email (but of course; consider I send this text to my publisher by email). Given these probabilities, we can then go on and try to generate emails that actually look like real emails, i.e., with proper sentences, but we won’t need that in the following. Instead we make the simplifying assumption that email consists of “a bag of words,” in random order. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 62 Context: # CHAPTER 9. SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION where the penalty is linear instead of quadratic, i.e. ```markdown minimize_{w,\xi} \quad \frac{1}{2} \| w \|^2 + C \sum_{i} (\xi_i + \xi_i^*) ``` subject to ```markdown w^T \phi_n + b - \xi_i \leq y_i \quad \forall i ``` ```markdown y_i \leq w^T \phi_n + b + \xi_i \quad \forall i \tag{9.11} ``` ```markdown \xi_i \geq 0, \quad \xi_i^* \geq 0 \quad \forall i \tag{9.12} ``` leading to the dual problem, ```markdown maximize_{\beta} \quad -\frac{1}{2} \sum_{j} \beta_j \beta_k K_{j,k} + \sum_{i} \beta_i y_i - \sum_{i} |\beta_i| \epsilon ``` subject to ```markdown \sum_{i} \beta_i = 0 \tag{9.13} ``` ```markdown -C \leq \beta_i \leq C \quad \forall i \tag{9.14} ``` where we note that the quadratic penalty on the size of \( \beta \) is replaced by a box constraint, as is to be expected in switching from \( L_2 \) norm to \( L_1 \) norm. Final remark: Let’s remind ourselves that the quadratic programs that we have derived are convex optimization problems which have a unique optimal solution that can be found efficiently using numerical methods. This is often claimed as great progress w.r.t. the old neural networks days which were plagued by many local optima. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 65 Context: # 10.2 An Alternative Derivation Instead of optimizing the cost function above, we can introduce Lagrange multipliers into the problem. This will have the effect that the derivation goes along similar lines as the SVM case. We introduce new variables, \( \xi_i = y_i - w^T \phi_i \), and rewrite the objective as the following constrained QP. ## Problem Formulation minimize: \[ -w^T \xi \quad L_P = \sum_i \xi_i^2 \] subject to: \[ y_i = w^T \phi_i, \quad \forall i \quad (10.8) \] \[ \|w\| \leq B \quad (10.9) \] This leads to the Lagrangian: \[ L_P = \sum_i \left( \frac{1}{4}\xi_i^2 + \sum_i \beta_i[y_i - w^T \phi_i - \xi_i] + \lambda[\|w\|^2 - B^2] \right) \quad (10.10) \] Two of the KKT conditions tell us that at the solution we have: \[ 2\xi_i = \beta_i, \quad \forall i \quad (10.11) \] \[ 2\lambda w = \sum_i \beta_i \phi_i \] Plugging it back into the Lagrangian, we obtain the dual Lagrangian: \[ L_D = \sum_i \left( -\frac{1}{4}\sum_i \beta_i^2 + \beta_i y_i \right) - \frac{1}{4 \lambda} \sum_{ij} \left( \beta_i \beta_j K_{ij} \right) - \lambda B^2 \quad (10.12) \] We now redefine \( \alpha_i = \beta_i/(2\lambda) \) to arrive at the following dual optimization problem: ## Dual Problem maximize: \[ -\alpha^T \lambda \quad L = -\lambda^2 \sum_i \alpha_i^2 + 2\lambda \sum_i \alpha_i y_i - \lambda \sum_{ij} \alpha_i \alpha_j K_{ij} - \lambda B^2 \quad s.t. \quad \lambda \geq 0 \quad (10.13) \] Taking derivatives w.r.t. \( \alpha \) gives precisely the solution we had already found: \[ \alpha_i^* = (K + \lambda I)^{-1}y \quad (10.14) \] Formally, we also need to maximize over \( \lambda \). However, different choices of \( \lambda \) correspond to different choices for \( B \). Either \( \lambda \) or \( B \) should be chosen using cross-validation or some other measure, so we could as well vary \( \lambda \) in this process. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 66 Context: # CHAPTER 10. KERNEL RIDGE REGRESSION One big disadvantage of the ridge-regression is that we don’t have sparseness in the \( \alpha \) vector, i.e., there is no concept of support vectors. This is useful because when we test a new example, we only have to sum over the support vectors, which is much faster than summing over the entire training set. In the SVM, the sparseness was born out of the inequality constraints because the complementary slackness conditions told us that either if the constraint was inactive, then the multiplier \( \alpha_i \) was zero. There is no such effect here. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 93 Context: # Bibliography 1. Author, A. (Year). *Title of the Book*. Publisher. 2. Author, B. (Year). *Title of the Article*. *Journal Name*, Volume(Issue), Page Range. DOI or URL if available. 3. Author, C. (Year). *Title of the Website*. Retrieved from URL. 4. Author, D. (Year). *Title of the Thesis or Dissertation*. University Name. - Point 1 - Point 2 - Point 3 ## Additional References | Author | Title | Year | Publisher | |-------------------|-------------------------|------|------------------| | Author, E. | *Title of Article* | Year | Publisher Name | | Author, F. | *Title of Conference* | Year | Conference Name | ### Notes - Ensure that all entries follow the same citation style for consistency. - Check for publication dates and any updates that may be required. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: ``` 6.6 Discriminative Models........................................159 6.7 Autoencoders...............................................163 6.8 Ranking*...................................................164 6.9 Summary....................................................164 IV Advanced Modelling and Inference..............................165 7 Probabilistic Graphical Models................................166 7.1 Introduction...............................................167 7.2 Bayesian Networks..........................................170 7.3 Markov Random Fields.......................................178 7.4 Bayesian Inference in Probabilistic Graphical Models......182 7.5 Summary....................................................185 8 Approximate Inference and Learning............................186 8.1 Monte Carlo Methods........................................187 8.2 Variational Inference.......................................189 8.3 Monte Carlo-Based Variational Learning*....................197 8.4 Approximate Learning*......................................199 8.5 Summary....................................................201 V Conclusions...................................................202 9 Concluding Remarks............................................203 Appendices.......................................................206 A Appendix A: Information Measures..............................207 A.1 Entropy....................................................207 A.2 Conditional Entropy and Mutual Information................210 A.3 Divergence Measures.......................................212 B Appendix B: KL Divergence and Exponential Family..........215 Acknowledgements...............................................217 ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: References =========== 218 #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: # Part I ## Basics #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: # 1.2 When to Use Machine Learning? Based on the discussion above, machine learning can offer an efficient alternative to the conventional engineering flow when development cost and time are the main concerns, or when the problem appears to be too complex to be studied in its full generality. On the flip side, the approach has the key disadvantages of providing generally suboptimal performance, or hindering interpretability of the solution, and to apply only to a limited set of problems. In order to identify tasks for which machine learning methods may be useful, reference [31] suggests the following criteria: 1. The task involves a function that maps well-defined inputs to well-defined outputs. 2. Large data sets exist or can be created containing input-output pairs. 3. The task provides clear feedback with clearly definable goals and metrics. 4. The task does not involve long chains of logic or reasoning that depend on diverse background knowledge or common sense. 5. The task does not require detailed explanations for how the decision was made. 6. The task has a tolerance for error and no need for provably correct or optimal solutions. 7. The phenomenon or function being learned should not change rapidly over time. 8. No specialized dexterity, physical skills, or mobility is required. These criteria are useful guidelines for the decision of whether machine learning methods are suitable for a given task of interest. They also offer a convenient demarcation line between machine learning as is intended today, with its focus on training and computational statistics tools, and more general notions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on knowledge and common sense [87] (see [126] for an overview on AI research). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 133 Context: # 5.5. Summary To elaborate, consider a probabilistic model \( \mathcal{H} \) defined as the set of all pmfs \( p(x|\theta) \) parameterized by \( \theta \) in a given set. With some abuse of notation, we take \( \mathcal{H} \) to be also the domain of parameter \( \theta \). To fix the ideas, assume that \( \theta \) takes values over a finite alphabet. We know from Section 2.5 that a distribution \( q(x) \) is associated with a lossless compression scheme that requires around \( -\log q(x) \) bits to describe a value. Furthermore, if we were informed about the true parameter \( \theta \), the minimum average coding length would be the entropy \( H(p(\cdot|\theta)) \), which requires setting \( q(x) = p(x|\theta) \) (see Appendix A). Assume now that we only know that the parameter \( \theta \) lies in set \( \mathcal{H} \), and hence the true distribution \( p(x|\theta) \) is not known. In this case, we cannot select the true parameter distribution, and we need instead to choose a generally different distribution \( q(x) \) to define a compression scheme. With a given distribution \( q(x) \), the average coding length is given by \[ \bar{L}(q(x), \theta) = -\sum_{x} p(x|\theta) \log q(x). \] Therefore, the choice of a generally different distribution \( q(x) \) entails a redundancy of \[ \Delta R(q(x), \theta) = -\sum_{x} p(x|\theta) \log \frac{q(x)}{p(x|\theta)} \geq 0 \tag{5.22} \] bits. The redundancy \( \Delta R(q(x), \theta) \) in (5.22) depends on the true value of \( \theta \). Since the latter is not known, this quantity cannot be computed. We can instead obtain a computable metric by maximizing over all values of \( \theta \in \mathcal{H} \), which yields the worst-case redundancy \[ \Delta R(q(x), \mathcal{H}) = \max_{\theta \in \mathcal{H}} \Delta R(q(x), \theta). \tag{5.23} \] This quantity can be minimized over \( q(x) \) yielding the so-called min-max redundancy: \[ \Delta R(q(x)) = \min_{q} \Delta R(q(x), \mathcal{H}) \tag{5.24} \] \[ = \min_{q} \max_{\theta} \sum_{x} p(x|\theta) \log \frac{p(x|\theta)}{q(x)} \tag{5.25} \] \[ = \min_{q} \max_{\theta} \sum_{x} p(x|\theta) \log \frac{p(x|\theta)}{q(x)}. \tag{5.26} \] The minimum redundancy can be taken as a measure of the capacity of model \( \mathcal{H} \), since a richer model tends to yield a larger \( \Delta R(\mathcal{H}) \). In fact, #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 208 Context: # Part V ## Conclusions - This section summarizes the key findings of the study. - Conclusions drawn from the data. - Implications of the findings for future research. 1. **First conclusion point.** 2. **Second conclusion point.** 3. **Third conclusion point.** ### Recommendations - **Recommendation 1:** Description of recommendation. - **Recommendation 2:** Description of recommendation. - **Recommendation 3:** Description of recommendation. ### References 1. Author, A. (Year). *Title of the work*. Publisher. 2. Author, B. (Year). *Title of the work*. Publisher. ### Acknowledgements - Acknowledgement of contributions from individuals or organizations. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 209 Context: # 9 ## Concluding Remarks This monograph has provided a brief introduction to machine learning by focusing on parametric probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised learning problems. It has endeavored to describe fundamental concepts within a unified treatment starting from first principles. Throughout the text, we have also provided pointers to advanced topics that we have only been able to mention or shortly touch upon. Here, we offer a brief list of additional important aspects and open problems that have not been covered in the preceding chapters. - **Privacy:** In many applications, data sets used to train machine learning algorithms contain sensitive private information, such as personal preferences for recommendation systems. It is hence important to ensure that the learned model does not reveal any information about the individual entries of the training set. This constraint can be formulated using the concept of differential privacy. Typical techniques to guarantee privacy of individual data points include adding noise to gradients when training via SGD and relying on mixtures of experts trained with different subsets of the data [1]. - **Robustness:** It has been reported that various machine learning models, including neural networks, are sensitive to small variations in input data. #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 6 Context: # Bibliography 1. J. W. 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A.M.S. 55 (1949), 453-496. #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 8 Context: # Index - cocycle 198 - coefficients 153, 161, 198, 462 - cofiber 461 - cofiberation 460 - cofiberation sequence 398, 462 - Cohen-Macaulay ring 228 - cohomology group 191, 198 - cohomology operation 488 - cohomology ring 212 - cohomology theory 202, 314, 448, 454 - cohomology with compact supports 242 - cohomotopy groups 454 - colimit 460, 462 - collar 253 - commutative diagram 111 - commutative graded ring 213 - commutativity of cup product 210 - compact supports 242, 334 - compact-open topology 529 - compactly generated topology 523, 531 - complex of spaces 457, 462, 466 - compression lemma 346 - cone 9 - connected graded algebra 283 - connected sum 257 - contractible 4, 157 - contravariant 163, 201 - coproduct 283, 461 - covariant 163 - covering homotopy property 60 - covering space 29, 56, 321, 342, 377 - covering space action 72 - covering transformation 70 - cross product 214, 219, 268, 277, 278 - cup product 206, 249 - CW approximation 352 - CW complex 5, 519 - CW pair 7 - cycle 106 - deck transformation 70 - decomposable operation 497 - deformation retraction 2, 36, 346, 523 - deformation retraction, weak 18 - degree 134, 258 - Δ-complex (Delta-complex) 103 - diagonal 283 - diagram of spaces 456, 462 - dihedral group 75 - dimension 6, 126, 231 - direct limit 243, 311, 455, 460, 462 - directed set 243 - divided polynomial algebra 224, 286, 290 - division algebra 173, 223, 428 - dodecahedral group 142 - Dold-Thom theorem 483 - dominated 528 - dual Hopf algebra 289 - Eckmann-Hilton duality 460 - edge 83 - edgepath 86 - EHP sequence 474 - Eilenberg 131 - Eilenberg-MacLane space 87, 365, 393, 410, 453, 475 - ENR, Euclidean neighborhood retract 527 - Euler characteristic 6, 86, 146 - Euler class 438, 444 - evenly covered 29, 56 - exact sequence 113 - excess 499 - excision 119, 201, 360 - excisive triad 476 - extension lemma 348 - extension problem 415 - exterior algebra 213, 284 - external cup product 214 ########## """QUERY: can you compose a poem with 10 lines?""" 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