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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: 4 Context: I'm unable to process images. Please provide the text you'd like formatted in Markdown, and I can assist you with that. Image Analysis: Sure, let's analyze the provided visual content in detail according to the specified aspects: **Image 1:** ### 1. Localization and Attribution - **Image 1:** The only image on the page. ### 2. 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Perspective and Composition - **Perspective:** The image appears to be taken at eye level from a distance, offering a clear frontal view of the building. - **Composition:** The building is centrally placed, occupying most of the frame. The trees and cars on either side balance the composition and provide context. ### 8. Color Analysis - **Dominant Colors:** - **White/Cream:** The building's exterior. - **Green:** The trees and vegetation. - **Gray:** The pavement and cars. - **Impact on Perception:** The predominant white/cream color suggests cleanliness and elegance, while the green vegetation adds a sense of nature and calm. ### 6. Product Analysis - **Products Depicted:** The primary element is the building itself. - **Features:** Multi-story, numerous windows and balconies, classic architecture. - **Materials:** Likely concrete or brick with a stucco exterior. - **Colors:** Mainly white/cream with darker-colored windows and roofing. ### 10. Contextual Significance - **Overall Message:** The image likely aims to showcase the building, possibly for marketing or informational purposes, emphasizing its grandeur and well-maintained surroundings. - **Contribution to Theme:** It contributes to a theme of elegance, quality housing, or hospitality services. ### 7. Anomaly Detection - **Possible Anomalies:** None detected. The scene appears typical for this type of location. ### 11. Metadata Analysis - **Information Not Available:** No metadata is available to evaluate. --- This analysis covers all requested aspects based on the visual content provided. If there were specific elements or additional images, they could be analyzed similarly. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: # Preface Discrete math is a popular book topic — start Googling around and you’ll find a zillion different textbooks about it. Take a closer look, and you’ll discover that most of these are pretty thick, dense volumes packed with lots of equations and proofs. They’re principled approaches, written by mathematicians and (seemingly) to mathematicians. I speak with complete frankness when I say I’m comforted to know that the human race is well covered in this area. We need smart people who can derive complex expressions and prove theorems from scratch, and I’m glad we have them. Your average computer science practitioner, however, might be better served by a different approach. There are elements to the discrete math mindset that a budding software developer needs experience with. This is why discrete math is (properly, I believe) part of the mandatory curriculum for most computer science undergraduate programs. But for future programmers and engineers, the emphasis should be different than it is for mathematicians and researchers in computing theory. A practical computer scientist mostly needs to be able to use these tools, not to derive them. She needs familiarity, and practice, with the fundamental concepts and the thought processes they involve. The number of times the average software developer will need to construct a proof in graph theory is probably near zero. But the times she'll find it useful to reason about probability, logic, or the principles of collections are frequent. 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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: 22 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 2. SETS A program would run into problems if it tried to add a string of text to its cumulative total, or encountered a Product object in the middle of its list of Customers. Sets, though, can be heterogeneous, meaning they can contain different kinds of things. The Davies family example had all human beings, but nothing stops me from creating a set \( S = \{ \text{Jack Nicholson}, \text{Kim Kardashian}, \text{Universal Studios}, 5756, \star \} \). I don’t press this point too hard for a couple of reasons. First, most programming languages do allow heterogeneous collections of some sort, even if they’re not the most natural thing to express. In Java, you can define an `ArrayList` as a non-generic one that simply holds items of class “Object.” In C, you can have an array of void pointers to some unspecified type—which allows your array to point to different kinds of things. Unless it’s a loosely-typed language, though (like Perl or JavaScript), it sort of feels like you’re bending over backwards to do this. The other reason I make this distinction lightly is that when we’re dealing with sets, we often find it useful to deal with things of only one type, and so our \( S \) ends up being homogeneous anyway. ## 2.5 Sets are not ordered pairs (or tuples) You’ll remember from high school algebra the notion of an ordered pair \( (x, y) \). We dealt with those when we wanted to specify a point to plot on a graph: the first coordinate gave the distance from the origin on the x-axis, and the second coordinate on the y-axis. Clearly an ordered pair is not a set, because as the name implies it is ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 30 Context: # CHAPTER 2. SETS Let \( X \) be the set of all known murderers. Let \( Y \) be the set of all known thieves. Again, it's best understood with a specific example. Let’s say you’re renting a house and want to make sure you don’t have any shady characters under the roof. Now, as a landlord, you don’t want any thieves or murderers renting your property. So who are you willing to rent to? Answer: if \( \Omega \) is the set of all people, you are willing to rent to \( X \cup Y \). Why that? Because if you take \( X \cup Y \), that gives you all the undesirables: people who are either murderers or thieves (or both). You don’t want to rent to any of them. In fact, you want to rent to the complement of that set; namely, “anybody else.” Putting an overbar on that expression gives you all the non-thieves and non-murderers. Very well. But now look at the right-hand side of the equation. \( X \) gives you the non-thieves. \( Y \) gives you the non-murderers. Now in order to get acceptable people, you want to rent only to someone who’s in both groups. Put another way, they have to be both a non-thief and a non-murderer in order for you to rent to them. Therefore, they must be in the intersection of the non-thief group and the non-murderer group. Therefore, the two sides of this equation are the same. The other form of De Morgan’s law is stated by flipping the intersections and unions: \[ X \cap Y = \overline{X \cup Y} \] Work this one out for yourself using a similar example, and convince yourself it’s always true. Augustus De Morgan, by the way, was a brilliant 19th century mathematician with a wide range of interests. His name #################### 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: 38 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 2. SETS 1. **Is Yoda ⊂ J?** No. Yoda isn't even a set, so it can't be a subset of anything. 2. **Is { Yoda } ⊆ J?** Yes. The { Yoda } set that contains only Yoda is in fact a subset of J. 3. **Is { Yoda } ∈ J?** No. Yoda is one of the elements of J, but { Yoda } is not. In other words, J contains Yoda, but J does not contain a set which contains Yoda (nor does it contain any sets at all, in fact). 4. **Is S ⊆ J?** No. 5. **Is G ⊆ F?** Yes, since the two sets are equal. 6. **Is G ⊂ F?** No, since the two sets are equal, so neither is a proper subset of the other. 7. **Is ∅ ⊆ C?** Yes, since the empty set is a subset of every set. 8. **Is ∅ ⊂ C?** Yes, since the empty set is a subset of every set. 9. **Is F ⊆ Ω?** Yes, since every set is a subset of Ω, and F is certainly not equal to Ω. 10. **Is F ⊂ Ω?** Yes and yes. The empty set is an element of X because it's one of the elements, and it's also a subset of X because it's a subset of every set. Hmmm... 11. **Suppose X = { Q, α, { Z } }. Is α ∈ X?** Yes. 12. **Let A = { Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello }. B = { Scrabble, Monopoly, Othello }, and T = { Hamlet, Village, Town }. What's A ∩ B?** { Othello }. 13. **What's A ∪ B?** { Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Scrabble, Monopoly } (The elements can be listed in any order). ``` #################### 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: 40 Context: # CHAPTER 2. SETS ### 33. Is A an extensional set, or an intensional set? The question doesn't make sense. Sets aren't "extensional" or "intensional"; rather, a given set can be described extensionally or intensionally. The description given in item 19 is an extensional one; an intensional description of the same set would be "The Shakespeare tragedies Stephen studied in high school." ### 34. Recall that G was defined as { Matthew, Mark, Luke, John }. Is this a partition of G? - { Luke, Matthew } - { John } No, because the sets are not collectively exhaustive (Mark is missing). ### 35. Is this a partition of G? - { Mark, Luke } - { Matthew, Luke } No, because the sets are neither collectively exhaustive (John is missing) nor mutually exclusive (Luke appears in two of them). ### 36. Is this a partition of G? - { Matthew, Mark, Luke } - { John } Yes. (Trivia: this partitions the elements into the synoptic gospels and the non-synoptic gospels). ### 37. Is this a partition of G? - { Matthew, Luke } - { John, Mark } Yes. (This partitions the elements into the gospels which feature a Christmas story and those that don't). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 50 Context: # CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS - **Transitivity.** A relation is transitive if whenever \(xRy\) and \(yRz\), then it’s guaranteed that \(xRz\). The “isTallerThan” relation we defined is transitive: if you tell me that Bob is taller than Jane, and Jane is taller than Sue, then I know Bob must be taller than Sue, without even having to tell me that. That’s just how “taller than” works. An example of a non-transitive relation would be “hasBeaten” with NFL teams. Just because the Patriots beat the Steelers this year, and the Steelers beat the Giants, that does not imply that the Patriots necessarily beat the Giants. The Giants might have actually beaten the team-who-beat-the-team-who-beat-them (such things happen), or heck, the two teams might not even have played each other this year. All of the above examples were defined intentionally. Just for practice, let’s look at some extensionally defined relations as well. Using our familiar Harry Potter set as \(A\), consider the following relation: | Relation | |-----------------------| | (Harry, Ron) | | (Ron, Hermione) | | (Ron, Ron) | | (Hermione, Ron) | | (Hermione, Hermione) | Consider: is this relation reflexive? No. It has (Ron, Ron) and (Hermione, Hermione), but it’s missing (Harry, Harry), so it’s not reflexive. Is it symmetric? Yes. Look carefully at the ordered pairs. We have a (Harry, Ron), but also a matching (Ron, Harry). We have a (Hermione, Ron), but also a matching (Ron, Hermione). So every time we have a \( (x, y) \) we also have the matching \( (y, x) \), which is the definition of symmetry. Is it antisymmetric? No, because (among other things) both (Harry, Ron) and (Ron, Harry) are present. Finally, is it transitive? No. We have (Harry, Ron) and (Ron, Hermione), which means that if it’s transitive we would have to also have (Harry, Hermione) in there, which we don’t. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 63 Context: # 3.8 EXERCISES 15. **Is outranks symmetric?** No, since an officer cannot outrank an officer who in turn outranks him/her. 16. **Is outranks antisymmetric?** Yes, since if one officer outranks a second, the second one cannot also outrank the first. 17. **Is outranks transitive?** Yes, since if one officer outranks a second, and that officer outranks a third, the first obviously also outranks the third. 18. **Is outranks a partial order?** No, but close. It satisfies antisymmetry and transitivity, which are crucial. The only thing it doesn’t satisfy is reflexivity, since none of the members appear with themselves. If we changed this relation to ranksAtLeastAsHighAs, then we could include these “double” pairs and have ourselves a partial order. 19. Let `sameShirtColor` be an endorelation on the set of all crew members of the Enterprise, where \( x, y \in \text{sameShirtColor} \) if character x ordinarily wears the same shirt color as character y. **Is sameShirtColor reflexive?** Yes, since you can’t help wear the same shirt color as you’re wearing. **Is sameShirtColor symmetric?** Yes, since if a crew member wears the same shirt color as another, then that second crew member also wears the same shirt color as the first. If Scotty and Uhura both wear red, then Uhura and Scotty both wear red, duh. 20. **Is sameShirtColor antisymmetric?** No, for probably obvious reasons. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 66 Context: I'm unable to assist with this request. Image Analysis: **Image Analysis** 1. **Localization and Attribution:** - There is only one image on the page, referred to as **Image 1**. - **Image 1** is located centrally on the page. 2. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Image 1** contains several objects, including: - **Text Elements:** The text "Critical Path is the Longest of all Paths" is prominently displayed. - **Graphical Elements:** A flowchart or process diagram is visible, with various nodes and connecting arrows. - **Nodes and Connections:** Several boxes (nodes) with labeled text and directed arrows indicating the flow or sequence. 3. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Image 1** depicts a flowchart or a process diagram. This generally represents a sequence of steps in a process or workflow. The primary activity is the visualization of the critical path in a process. - The nodes likely represent different tasks or milestones. - The connecting arrows show dependencies and the sequential order of tasks. - The critical path, being the longest, indicates the sequence of tasks that determine the total duration of the process. 4. **Text Analysis:** - Extracted Text: "Critical Path is the Longest of all Paths" - Significance: This text emphasizes the importance of the critical path in project management or process flow. It signifies that the critical path dictates the overall time required to complete all tasks in the process. 5. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - **Image 1** features a diagram depicting a critical path: - **Axes and Scales:** No conventional axes as it's a flowchart. - **Nodes:** Each node likely represents a step or task in the process, with labeled connectors showing task dependencies. - **Key Insight:** Identifying the critical path helps in managing project timelines effectively, ensuring project milestones are met as scheduled. 6. **Anomaly Detection:** - There are no apparent anomalies or unusual elements in **Image 1**. The flowchart appears structured and coherent. 7. **Perspective and Composition:** - The image is created in a straightforward, top-down perspective, typical for process diagrams and flowcharts. - Composition centers around the critical path, with nodes and connectors drawing attention to the sequence and dependencies. 8. **Contextual Significance:** - The image likely serves an educational or informative purpose within documents or presentations related to project management or process optimization. - The depiction of the critical path forms a crucial element in understanding how task sequences impact project timelines. 9. **Trend and Interpretation:** - Trend: The longest path in the sequence (critical path) directly impacts the overall duration for project completion. - Interpretation: Any delay in tasks on the critical path will delay the entire project, underlining the need to monitor and manage these tasks closely. 10. **Process Description (Prozessbeschreibungen):** - The image describes a process where the longest sequence of tasks (critical path) dictates the project length, requiring focus and management to ensure timely completion. 11. **Graph Numbers:** - Data points and specific numbers for each node are not labeled in the image, but each node represents a step that adds up to form the critical path. By examining **Image 1**, it becomes clear that it plays a crucial role in illustrating process flows and emphasizing the importance of the critical path in project management. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 67 Context: # Chapter 4 ## Probability Probability is the study of **uncertainty**. This may seem like a hopeless endeavor, sort of like knowing the unknowable, but it's not. The study of probability gives us tools for taming the uncertain world we live and program in, and for reasoning about it in a precise and helpful way. We may not know exactly how long a particular visitor is willing to wait for our webpage to load in their browser, but we can use probability to estimate how much traffic we’ll lose if this takes longer than a certain average duration. We may not know which specific passwords a hacker will try as he attempts to break our security protocol, but we can use probability to estimate how feasible this approach will be for him. We may not know exactly when a certain program will run out of RAM and have to swap its data out to virtual memory, but we can predict how often this is likely to occur — and how painful it will be for us — given a certain system load and user behavior. The trick is to use the tools we've already built — sets, relations, functions — to characterize and structure our notions of the relative likelihood of various outcomes. Once those underpinnings are secured, a layer of deductive reasoning will help us make good use of that information to begin to predict the future. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 75 Context: # 4.3. PHILOSOPHICAL INTERLUDE The idea of how often heads will occur in the long run. But if we flip it a million times and get 500,372 heads, we can confidently say that the probability of getting a head on a single flip is approximately .500. This much isn’t controversial: it’s more like common sense. But the frequentist philosophy states that this is really the only way that probability can be defined. It’s what probability is: the frequency with which we can expect certain outcomes to occur, based on our observations of their past behavior. Probabilities only make sense for things that are repeatable, and reflect a known, reliable trend in how often they produce certain results. Historical proponents of this philosophy include John Venn, the inventor of the aforementioned Venn diagram, and Ronald Fisher, one of the greatest biologists and statisticians of all time. If frequentism is on a quest for experimental objectivity, Bayesianism might be called “subjective.” This isn’t to say it’s arbitrary or sloppy. It simply has a different notion of what probability ultimately means. Bayesians interpret probability as a quantitative personal assessment of the likelihood of something happening. They point out that for many (most) events of interest, trials are neither possible nor sensible. Suppose I’m considering asking a girl out to the prom, and I’m trying to estimate how likely it is she’ll go with me. It’s not like I’m going to ask her a hundred times and count how many times she says yes, then divide by 100 to get a probability. There is in fact no way to perform a trial or use past data to guide me, and at any rate she’s only going to say yes or no once. So based on my background knowledge and my assumptions about her, myself, and the world, I form an opinion which could be quantified as a “percent chance.” Once I’ve formed this opinion (which of course involves guesswork and subjectivity) I can then reason about it mathematically, using all the tools we’ve been developing. Of special interest to Bayesians is the notion of updating probabilities when new information comes to light, a topic we’ll return to in a moment. For the Bayesian, the probability of some hypothesis being true is between 0 and 1, and when an agent (a human, or a bot) makes decisions, she/he/it #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 82 Context: # CHAPTER 4. PROBABILITY To be clear: this is saying that if we select a visitor at random on Saturday, the probability that they will be seeing Spiderman is 0.571. But (and this is the trick) we can also compute the conditional probability that an attendee of each of these films will be a minor: \[ \Pr(\text{minor} | \text{Spiderman}) = 0.6 \] \[ \Pr(\text{minor} | \text{Here Before}) = 0.01 \] \[ \Pr(\text{minor} | \text{Sonic}) = 0.95 \] In words: “If we know that a visitor is coming to see Spiderman, there’s a 0.6 probability that they’ll be a minor.” We’re using the background knowledge to determine the conditional probability. It might be hard to figure out the probability of minors in general, but easier to figure out the probability of minors watching a specific movie. Now, it’s just a matter of stitching together the parts: \[ \Pr(\text{minor}) = \Pr(\text{minor} | \text{Spiderman}) \Pr(\text{Spiderman}) + \Pr(\text{minor} | \text{Here Before}) \Pr(\text{Here Before}) + \Pr(\text{minor} | \text{Sonic}) \Pr(\text{Sonic}) \] \[ = 0.6 \cdot 0.571 + 0.01 \cdot 0.143 + 0.95 \cdot 0.286 \] \[ = 0.343 + 0.00143 + 0.272 = 0.616 \] In words, there are three different ways for a visitor to be a minor: they could be a Spiderman fan and a minor (pretty likely, since there’s lots of Spiderman fans), or a Here Before fan and a minor (not likely), or a Sonic fan and a minor (fairly likely, since although there’s not a ton of Sonic fans overall, most of them are minors). Adding up these probabilities is legit only because these three movies form a partition of the visitors (i.e., every visitor is there to see one and only one movie). #################### 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: 86 Context: # CHAPTER 4. PROBABILITY The group of highly influential 18th century essays that argued for ratifying the Constitution. These essays were jointly authored by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, but it was uncertain for many years which of these authors wrote which specific essays. Suppose we’re interested in determining which of these three Founding Fathers actually wrote essay #84 in the collection. To do this, the logical approach is to find \( P(\text{Hamilton} | \text{essay}84) \), \( P(\text{Madison} | \text{essay}84) \), and \( P(\text{Jay} | \text{essay}84) \), and then choose the author with the highest probability. But how can we possibly find out \( P(\text{Hamilton} | \text{essay}84) \)? “Given that essay #84 has these words in this order, what’s the probability that Hamilton wrote it?” Impossible to know. But with Bayes’ Theorem, we can restructure this in terms of \( P(\text{essay}84 | \text{Hamilton}) \) instead. That’s a horse of a different color. We have lots of known samples of Hamilton’s writing (and Madison’s, and Jay’s), so we can ask, “given that Hamilton wrote the essay, what’s the probability that he would have chosen the words that appear in essay #84?” Perhaps essay #84 has a turn of phrase that is very characteristic of Hamilton, and contains certain vocabulary words that Madison never used elsewhere, and has fewer sentences per paragraph than is typical of Jay’s writing. If we can identify the relevant features of the essay and compare them to the writing styles of the candidates, we can use Bayes’ Theorem to estimate the relative probabilities that each of them would have produced that kind of essay. I’m glossing over a lot of details here, but this trick of exchanging one conditional probability for the other is the backbone of this whole technique. ## 4.7 Independence We’ve seen that a particular problem can involve multiple different events. In the All-time Idol example, we considered the probability of a female winner, a country singer winner, and an underage winner, among other things. Now one question that often arises concerns the independence of events. Two events \( A \) and \( B \) are called independent if the prior probability of one does not affect the probability of the other. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 90 Context: # 4.8 Exercises 1. At a swim meet, the competitors in the 100-m freestyle are Ben, Chad, Grover, and Tim. These four swimmers make up our sample space \( S \) for the winner of this heat. Is Chad ∈ \( S \)? Yes. 2. Is Tim an outcome? Yes. 3. Is Ben an event? No, since outcomes are elements of the sample space, while events are subsets of the sample space. 4. Is \( \{ Chad, Grover \} \) an event? Yes. 5. Is \( \{ Ben \} \) an event? Yes. 6. Suppose I told you that \( Pr(\{ Ben \})=1 \), \( Pr(\{ Chad \})=2 \), \( Pr(\{ Grover \})=3 \), and \( Pr(\{ Tim \})=3 \). Would you believe me? Better not. This is not a valid probability measure, since the sum of the probabilities of all the outcomes, \( Pr(S) \), is not equal to 1. 7. Suppose I told you that \( Pr(\{ Ben, Chad \})=3 \), and \( Pr(\{ Ben, Tim \})=4 \), and \( Pr(\{ Grover \})=4 \). Could you tell me the probability that Ben wins the heat? Yes. If \( Pr(\{ Ben, Chad \})=3 \) and \( Pr(\{ Grover \})=4 \), that leaves 3 probability left over for Tim. And if \( Pr(\{ Ben, Tim \})=4 \), this implies that \( Pr(\{ Ben \})=1 \). 8. And what’s the probability that someone besides Chad wins? \( Pr(\{ Chad \}) = 1 - Pr(\{ Chad \}) \), so we just need to figure out the probability that Chad wins and take one minus that. Clearly if \( Pr(\{ Ben, Chad \})=3 \) (as we were told), and then \( Pr(\{ Chad \})=2 \), the probability of a non-Chad winner is .8. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 97 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS ## Figure 5.2: A directed graph. ``` Sonny Liston / \ Muhammad Ali George Foreman \ / Joe Frazier ``` ## Figure 5.3: A weighted (and undirected) graph. ``` Washington, DC | 50 | Fredericksburg 150 | 60 | Virginia Beach | 100 | Richmond ``` **adjacent.** If two vertices have an edge between them, they are said to be adjacent. **connected.** The word connected has two meanings: it applies both to pairs of vertices and to entire graphs. We say that two vertices are connected if there is at least one path between them. Each vertex is therefore "reachable" from the other. In Figure 5.1, President and actor are connected, but Ford's Theatre and Civil War are not. "Connected" is also used to describe entire graphs, if every node can be reached from all others. It's easy to see that Fig. #################### 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: 102 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ## Figure 5.7: A graph depicting a symmetric endorelationship. ``` (Harry, Ron) (Ron, Harry) (Ron, Hermione) (Hermione, Ron) (Harry, Harry) (Neville, Neville) ``` ``` Harry | | Ron / \ / \ Hermione Neville ``` Notice how the loops (edges from a node back to itself) in these diagrams represent ordered pairs in which both elements are the same. Another connection between graphs and sets has to do with partitions. Figure 5.7 was not a connected graph: Neville couldn't be reached from any of the other nodes. Now consider: isn't a graph like this similar in some ways to a partition of \( A \) — namely, this one? - \( \{ Harry, Ron, Hermione \} \) - \( \{ Neville \} \) We've simply partitioned the elements of \( A \) into the groups that are connected. If you remove the edge between Harry and Ron in that graph, you have: - \( \{ Harry \} \) - \( \{ Ron, Hermione \} \) - \( \{ Neville \} \) Then add one between Hermione and Neville, and you now have: - \( \{ Harry \} \) - \( \{ Ron, Hermione, Neville \} \) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 103 Context: # 5.1 GRAPHS { Harry } and { Ron, Hermione, Neville }. In other words, the “connectedness” of a graph can be represented precisely as a partition of the set of vertices. Each connected subset is in its own group, and every vertex is in one and only one group; therefore, these isolated groups are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. Cool. ## Graph Traversal If you had a long list — perhaps of phone numbers, names, or purchase orders — and you needed to go through and do something to each element of the list — dial all the numbers, scan the list for a certain name, and add up all the orders — it’d be pretty obvious how to do it. You just start at the top and work your way down. It might be tedious, but it’s not confusing. Iterating through the elements like this is called **traversing** the data structure. You want to make sure you encounter each element once (and only once) so you can do whatever needs to be done with it. It’s clear how to traverse a list. But how to traverse a graph? There is no obvious “first” or “last” node, and each one is linked to potentially many others. And as we’ve seen, the vertices might not even be fully connected, so a traversal path through all the nodes might not even exist. There are two different ways of traversing a graph: **breadth-first** and **depth-first**. They provide different ways of exploring the nodes, and as a side effect, each is able to discover whether the graph is connected or not. Let’s look at each in turn. ### Breadth-First Traversal With breadth-first traversal, we begin at a starting vertex (it doesn’t matter which one) and explore the graph cautiously and delicately. We probe equally deep in all directions, making sure we’ve looked a little ways down each possible path before exploring each of those paths a little further. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 104 Context: ```markdown # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES To do this, we use a very simple data structure called a **queue**. A queue is simply a list of nodes that are waiting in line. (In Britain, I'm told, instead of saying “line up” at the sandwich shop, they say “queue up.”) When we enter a node into the queue at the tail end, we call it **enqueueing** the node, and when we remove one from the front, we call it **dequeuing** the node. The nodes in the middle patiently wait their turn to be dealt with, getting closer to the front every time the front node is dequeued. An example of this data structure in action is shown in Figure 5.8. Note carefully that we always insert nodes at one end (on the right) and remove them from the other end (the left). This means that the first item to be enqueued (in this case, the triangle) will be the first to be dequeued. “Calls will be answered in the order they were received.” This fact has given rise to another name for a queue: a **FIFO**, which stands for “first-in-first-out.” ### Start with an empty queue: - Enqueue a triangle, and we have: ⬊ - Enqueue a star, and we have: ⬊⭐ - Enqueue a heart, and we have: ⬊⭐❤️ - Dequeue the triangle, and we have: ⭐❤️ - Enqueue a club, and we have: ⭐❤️♣️ - Dequeue the star, and we have: ❤️♣️ - Dequeue the heart, and we have: ♣️ - Dequeue the club. We’re empty again: **Figure 5.8:** A queue in action. The vertical bar marks the “front of the line,” and the elements are waiting to be dequeued in order from left to right. Now here’s how we use a queue to traverse a graph breadth-first. We’re going to start at a particular node and put all of its adjacent nodes into a queue. This makes them all safely “wait in line” until we get around to exploring them. Then, we repeatedly take the first node in line, do whatever we need to do with it, and then put all of its adjacent nodes in line. We keep doing this until the queue is empty. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 116 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES That's immediately closest to the connected group, and adds it without a second thought. There's no notion of "perhaps I'll get a shorter overall edge set if I forego connecting this tempting close node right now." Sometimes, a greedy algorithm turns out to give an optimal result. Often it does not, and more sophisticated approaches can find better solutions. In this case, it happens to work out that the greedy approach does work! Prim's algorithm will always find the set of edges that connects all the nodes and does so with the lowest possible total distance. It's amazing that it can do so, especially since it never backtracks or revises its opinion the way Dijkstra's algorithm does. Let's follow the algorithm's progress in the WWII example. We can start with any node, so we'll pick Vichy just at random. Frame 1 of Figure 5.14 shows what happens when the algorithm begins with Vichy: we simply examine all its neighbors and connect the one that's closest to it. Nothing could be simpler. In this case, Lyon is a mere 250 km away, which is closer than anything else to Vichy, so we connect it and add the Vichy-Lyon edge to our edge set. The figure shows a heavy black line between Vichy and Lyon to show that it will officially be a supply line. And so it goes. In successive frames, we add Marseille, Nice, and Briançon to the set of connected nodes, since we can do no better than 150 km, 150 km, and 200 km, respectively. Note carefully that in frame 4 we connect Briançon to Lyon—not to Nice—because 200 < 250. Note also that the algorithm can jump around from side to side—we aren't looking for the shortest edge from the most recently added node, but from any connected node. The final result is shown in the last frame. This is the best way to connect all the cities to each other, if "best" means "least total supply line distance," which in this case works out to 2450 total kilometers. But if you look carefully, you'll notice a fascinating thing. >This network of edges does not contain the shortest path from Bordeaux to Strasbourg! I find that result dumbfounding. Wouldn't it's very easy to fall into a trance and always add nodes only to the ends of the growing scale. In fact, I originally did that with this very example! #################### 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: 125 Context: ``` ## 5.2. TREES ![Figure 5.17: A binary tree.](path/to/image) Traversing binary trees ----------------------- There were two ways of traversing a graph: breadth-first and depth-first. Curiously, there are three ways of traversing a tree: **pre-order**, **post-order**, and **in-order**. All three begin at the root, and all three consider each of the root's children as subtrees. The difference is in the order of visitation. ### To traverse a tree **pre-order**, we: 1. Visit the root. 2. Treat the left child and all its descendants as a subtree, and traverse it in its entirety. 3. Do the same with the right child. It’s tricky because you have to remember that each time you “treat a child as a subtree” you do the **whole traversal process** on that subtree. This involves remembering where you were once you finish. Follow this example carefully. For the tree in Figure 5.17, we begin by visiting G. Then, we traverse the whole “K subtree.” This involves visiting K itself, and then traversing its whole left subtree (anchored at D). After we visit the D node, we discover that it actually has no left subtree, so we go ahead and traverse its right. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 132 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES If this doesn’t seem amazing to you, it’s probably because you don’t fully appreciate how quickly this kind of exponential growth can accumulate. Suppose you had a perfect binary tree of height 30—certainly not an awe-inspiring figure. One could imagine it fitting on a piece of paper—height-wise, that is. But run the numbers and you’ll discover that such a tree would have over half a billion leaves, more than one for every person in the United States. Increase the tree’s height to a mere 34—just 4 additional levels—and suddenly you have over 8 billion leaves, easily greater than the population of planet Earth. The power of exponential growth is only fully reached when the binary tree is perfect, since a tree with some “missing” internal nodes does not carry the maximum capacity that it’s capable of. It’s got some holes in it. Still, as long as the tree is fairly bushy (i.e., it’s not horribly lopsided in just a few areas) the enormous growth predicted for perfect trees is still approximately the case. The reason this is called “exponential” growth is that the quantity we’re varying—the height—appears as an exponent in the number of leaves, which is \(2^h\). Every time we add just one level, we double the number of leaves. The number of leaves (call it \(l\)) is \(2^h\), if \(h\) is the height of the tree. Flipping this around, we say that \(h = \log_2(l)\). The function “log” is a logarithm, specifically a logarithm with base-2. This is what computer scientists often use, rather than a base of 10 (which is written “log”) or a base of \(e\) (which is written “ln”). Since \(2^h\) grows very, very quickly, it follows that \(\log_2(l)\) grows very, very slowly. After our tree reaches a few million nodes, we can add more and more nodes without growing the height of the tree significantly at all. The takeaway message is simply that an incredibly large number of nodes can be accommodated in a tree with a very modest height. This makes it possible to, among other things, search a huge amount of information astonishingly quickly—provided the tree’s contents are arranged properly. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 138 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES missing her. Jennifer has effectively been lost. ```plaintext Mitch ┌───────────┐ Randi Ben ┌────────┐ Jim Xander └───────┘ Jennifer ┌────────┐ Molly ``` Figure 5.27: A wrong (non)-BST after removing Jessica incorrectly. One correct way (there are others) to do a node removal is to replace the node with the left-most descendant of its right subtree. (Or, equivalently, the right-most descendant of its left subtree.) Let’s be careful to define this: to get the left-most descendant of a node’s right subtree, we (1) go to the right child of the node, and then (2) go as left as we possibly can from there, until we come to a node that has no left child. That node (the one without a left child) is officially the left-most descendant of the original node’s right subtree. Example: flip back to Figure 5.17 (p. 117). What is the left-most descendant of G’s right subtree? **Answer:** We start by going right from G down to H, and then we go as left as possible... which turns out to be only one node’s worth of “left,” because we hit A, and A has no left child (or right child, for that matter). Work these additional examples out for yourself: what is the left-most descendant of K’s right subtree? Of D’s? Of H’s? Okay, let’s return to Figure 5.26 (p. 129) and remove Jessica the correct way. We simply find the left-most descendant of her right subtree. #################### 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: 144 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES 10. How many vertices and edges are there in the graph below? ![Graph](image_reference_placeholder) **7 and 10, respectively.** 11. What's the degree of vertex L? **It has an in-degree of 2, and an out-degree of 1.** 12. Is this graph directed? **Yes.** 13. Is this graph connected? **Depends on what we mean. There are two different notions of “connectedness” for directed graphs. One is strongly connected, which means every vertex is reachable from any other by following the arrows in their specified directions. By that definition, this graph is not connected: there’s no way to get to H from L, for example. It is weakly connected, however, which means that if you ignore the arrowheads and consider it like an undirected graph, it would be connected.** 14. Is it a tree? **No. For one thing, it can’t have any “extra” edges beyond what’s necessary to make it connected, and there’s redundancy here.** 15. Is it a DAG? **All in all, if you look very carefully, you’ll see that there is indeed a cycle: I→J→K→L→I. So if this graph were to represent a typical project workflow, it would be impossible to complete.** 16. If we reversed the direction of the I→J edge, would it be a DAG? **Yes. The edges could now be completed in this order: H, G, L, I, M, K, and finally J.** #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 145 Context: # 5.4. EXERCISES 17. If this graph represented an endorelation, how many ordered pairs would it have? **Answer:** 10. 18. Suppose we traversed the graph below in depth-first fashion, starting with node P. In what order would we visit the nodes? ![Graph](attachment_link_here) **Answer:** There are two possible answers: P, Q, R, S, T, N, O, or else P, O, N, T, S, R, Q. (The choice just depends on whether we go "left" or "right" initially.) Note in particular that either O or Q is at the very end of the list. 19. Now we traverse the same graph breadth-first fashion, starting with node P. Now in what order would we visit the nodes? **Answer:** Again, two possible answers: P, O, Q, N, R, T, S, or else P, Q, R, N, S, T. Note in particular that both O and Q are visited very early. #################### 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: 148 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES 29. If we wanted to add a new node called “Shepherd” to this tree, where would he go? To Simon’s left. We can put the left-most node of Mal’s right subtree (that would be River) in Mal’s place, and then make Simon (and everything under him) become Wash’s left child. The result would look like this: ``` River / \ Jayne Zoe / \ \ Inara Kaylee Simon / Wash ``` 30. If we wanted to remove the “Mal” node from this tree, how would we do that? Take a moment and convince yourself that this Mal-less tree does in fact satisfy the BST property. #################### 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: 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: 167 Context: # 6.4 Summary Most of the time, counting problems all boil down to a variation of one of the following three basic situations: - \( n^k \) — this is when we have \( k \) different things, each of which is free to take on one of \( n \) completely independent choices. - \( \binom{n}{k} \) — this is when we’re taking a sequence of \( k \) different things from a set of \( n \), but no repeats are allowed. (A special case of this is \( n! \), when \( k = n \).) - \( \binom{n}{k} \) — this is when we’re taking \( k \) different things from a set of \( n \), but the order doesn’t matter. Sometimes it’s tricky to deduce exactly which of these three situations apply. You have to think carefully about the problem and ask yourself whether repeated values would be allowed and whether it matters what order the values appear in. This is often subtle. As an example, suppose my friend and I work out at the same gym. This gym has 18 different weight machines to choose from, each of which exercises a different muscle group. Each morning, #################### 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: 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: 178 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 7. NUMBERS Of the number. Obviously, 239 is less than 932, so we say that the hundreds place is more significant than the other digits. All of this probably seems pretty obvious to you. All right then. Let’s use a base other than ten and see how you do. Let’s write out a number in base 5. We have seven symbols at our disposal: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Wait, you ask — why not 7? Because there is no digit for seven in a base 5 system, just like there is no digit for ten in base 10 system. Ten is the point where we need two digits in a decimal system, and analogously, seven is the point where we’ll need two digits in our base 7 system. How will we write the value seven? Just like this: 10. Now stare at those two digits and practice saying “seven” as you look at them. All your life you’ve been trained to say the number “ten” when you see the digits 1 and 0 printed like that. But those two digits only represent the number ten if you’re using a base 10 system. If you’re using a base 3/4 system, “10” is how you write “thirty-four.” Very well, we have our seven symbols. Now how do we interpret a number like 6153₇? It’s this: 6153₇ = 6 × 7³ + 1 × 7² + 5 × 7¹ + 3 × 7⁰. That doesn’t look so strange; it’s very parallel to the decimal string we expanded, above. It looks we can interpret when we actually multiply out the place values: 6153₇ = 6 × 343 + 1 × 49 + 5 × 7 + 3 × 1. So in base 7, we have a “one’s place”, a “seven’s place”, a “forty-nine’s place”, and a “three hundred forty-three’s place.” This seems unbelievably bizarre — how could a number system possibly hold together with such place values? But I’ll bet it wouldn’t look funny at all if we had been born with 7 fingers. Keep in mind that in the equation above, we wrote out the place values as decimal numbers: Had we written them as base-7 numbers (as we certainly would have if base 7 was our natural numbering system), we would have written: 6153₇ = 6 × 100₇ + 1 × 10₇ + 5 × 7₇ + 3 × 1₇. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 183 Context: # 7.3. HEXADECIMAL (BASE 16) As an example, let’s go backwards to the hex number 7E2E as in our example above, which we already computed was equal to 29,411 in decimal. Starting with 29,411, then, we follow our algorithm: 1. **(Step 1)** We first compute 29,411 mod 16. This turns out to be 3. Many scientific calculators can perform this operation, as can programming languages like Java and data analysis languages like R. Or, you could do long division (459,494 ÷ 16) by hand and see what the remainder is. Or, you could divide on an ordinary calculator and see whether the part after the decimal point is 0, 1/16, 2/16, etc. Or, you could sit there and subtract 16 after 16 from 29,411 until there are no more 16's to take out, and see what the answer is. At any rate, the answer is 3. So we write down 3: ``` 3 ``` 2. **(Step 2)** We now divide 29,411 by 16 and take the floor. This produces \(\left\lfloor \frac{29,411}{16} \right\rfloor = 1831\). Since this is not zero, we perform step 2b: make 1831 our new value, move our pencil to the left of the 3, and go back to step 1. 3. **(Step 1)** Now compute 1831 mod 16. This gives us the value 14, which is of course a base 10 number. The equivalent hex digit is E. So we write down E to the left of the 3: ``` E3 ``` 4. **(Step 2)** Dividing 1831 by 16 and taking the floor gives us 114. Since this is again not zero, we perform step 2b: make 114 our new value, move our pencil to the left of the E, and go back to step 1. 5. **(Step 1)** Now we compute 114 mod 16. This turns out to be 2, so we write down a 2: ``` 2E3 ``` Thus, the final hex representation of 29,411 is **7E2E**. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 201 Context: # 7.5 EXERCISES 6. If I told you that 98,243,917,215 mod 7 was equal to 1, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? No, you shouldn’t. It turns out that the answer is 3, not 1, but how would you know that without working hard for it? 7. If I told you that 273,111,999,214 mod 6 was equal to 6, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? Yes, you should. Any number mod 6 will be in the range 0 through 5, never 6 or above. (Think in terms of repeatedly taking out groups of six from the big number. The mod is the number of stones you have left when there are no more whole groups of six to take. If towards the end of this process there are six stones left, that’s not a remainder because you can get another whole group!) 8. Are the numbers 18 and 25 equal? Of course not. Don’t waste my time. 9. Are the numbers 18 and 25 congruent mod 7? Yes. If we take groups of 7 out of 18 stones, we’ll get two such groups (a total of 14 stones) and have 4 left over. And then, if we do that same with 25 stones, we’ll get three such groups (a total of 21 stones) and again have 4 left over. So they’re not congruent mod 7. 10. Are the numbers 18 and 25 congruent mod 6? No. If we take groups of 6 out of 18 stones, we’ll get three such groups with nothing left over. But if we start with 25 stones, we’ll take out 4 such groups (for a total of 24 stones) and have one left over. So they’re not congruent mod 6. 11. Are the numbers 617,418 and 617,424 equal? Of course not. Don’t waste my time. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 203 Context: # 7.5 EXERCISES 24. What’s the binary number `1011001110110100` in hexadecimal? Or is that too hard a question to eyeball? **Answer:** Naw, it’s easy. By inspection, it’s B3A4, since each of the four 4-bit nibbles goes one-for-one with a hex digit. (You can look up nibble values on p. 181 if you want, but again it’s definitely worth memorizing.) 25. What’s the binary number `1011001110110100` in decimal? Or is that too hard a question to eyeball? **Answer:** Ugh. Ain’t nobody got time for that. 26. What’s the hex number `F4C3` in decimal? Or is that too hard a question to eyeball? **Answer:** Too hard. 27. What’s the hex number `F4C3` in binary? Or is that too hard a question to eyeball? **Answer:** Simple: `1111010011000011`. Read it right off the chart (p. 181). 28. If I told you that the bit pattern `1010` was meant to represent an unsigned number, what value would it represent? **Answer:** Ten. (8 + 2 = 10). 29. If I told you that the bit pattern `1010` was meant to represent a sign-magnitude number, what value would it represent? **Answer:** Negative two. The left-most bit is 1, so it’s negative; and the remaining bits are `010`, which when interpreted in binary are the number 2. 30. If I told you that the bit pattern `1010` was meant to represent two's complement number, what value would it represent? **Answer:** Negative six. The left-most bit is 1, so it’s negative. This means in order to figure out the value, we have to flip all the bits and add one. Flipping the bits yields `0101`, and adding one to that gives `0110` (we had to do one carry). Since the binary number `010` is positive, that must mean that what we started with `1010` must be negative six. #################### 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: 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: 221 Context: # 8.2. PREDICATE LOGIC This asserts that for every \( x \), \( \text{HasGovernor}(x) \) is true. Actually, this isn’t quite right, for although Michigan and California have governors, mayonnaise does not. To be precise, we should say: \[ \forall x \in S \, \text{HasGovernor}(x), \] where \( S \) is the set of all fifty states in the U.S. We can use a quantifier for any complex expression, not just a simple predicate. For instance, if \( H \) is the set of all humans, then: \[ \forall h \in H \, \text{Adult}(h) \oplus \text{Child}(h) \] states that every human is either an adult or a child, but not both. (Imagine drawing an arbitrary line at a person’s 18th birthday.) Another (more common) way to write this is to dispense with sets and define another predicate \( \text{Human} \). Then we can say: \[ \forall h \, \text{Human}(h) \Rightarrow \text{Adult}(h) \oplus \text{Child}(h). \] Think this through carefully. We’re now asserting that this expression is true for all objects, whether they be Duchess Kate Middleton, little Prince Louis, or a bowl of oatmeal. To see that it’s true for all three, let’s first be equal to Kate Middleton. We substitute Kate for \( h \) and get: \[ \text{Human}(\text{Kate}) \Rightarrow \text{Adult}(\text{Kate}) \oplus \text{Child}(\text{Kate}) \] \[ \text{true} \Rightarrow \text{true} \oplus \text{false} \] \[ \text{true} \Rightarrow \text{true} \] \[ \text{true} \checkmark \] Remember that “implies” (\( \Rightarrow \)) is true as long as the premise (left-hand side) is false and/or the conclusion (right-hand side) is true. In this case, they’re both true, so we have a true result. Something similar happens for Prince Louis: \[ \text{Human}(\text{Louis}) \Rightarrow \text{Adult}(\text{Louis}) \oplus \text{Child}(\text{Louis}) \] \[ \text{true} \Rightarrow \text{false} \oplus \text{true} \] \[ \text{true} \Rightarrow \text{true} \] \[ \text{true} \checkmark #################### 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: 229 Context: # 8.3. EXERCISES 28. True or false: ¬∀x Human(x). **True.** This says “it’s not the case that everyone and everything is human.” And that certainly is not the case. 29. True or false: ∀x Human(x). **False.** This says “nothing is human,” which is clearly not true. (Consider yourself as a counterexample). 30. True or false: ∃x ¬Human(x). **True.** This says “there’s at least one thing in the universe which is not human.” (Consider your lunch). 31. True or false: ¬∃x Human(x). **False.** This says “nothing is human,” just like item 29 did. 32. True or false: ∀x Human(x) → Professor(x). **Not even close.** This says “everything in the universe is a human professor.” (Even though I would exist in such a world, what a world, indeed, as it would be). 33. True or false: ∀x Human(x) → Professor(x). **False.** This says “every person is a professor.” (Consider LeBron James.) Keep in mind: “→” and “∧” don’t really play well together. 34. True or false: ∃x Professor(x) → Human(x). **This is technically true, but for a stupid reason, and whoever wrote it almost certainly didn't intend what they wrote.** It says, “there’s at least one thing in the universe which either (a) isn’t a professor, or (b) if it is a professor, is also human.” Keep in mind: “∃” and “→” don’t really play well together. To drill this lesson home, realize that you could substitute almost any predicates for Professor(x) and Human(x) in that statement and it would still be true. (Try swapping out Professor(x) for Condition(x) and Human(x) for AstrologicalSign(x). Now try ∃ EuropeanUnion x: the statement is true. The U.S. is not a member, nor is it an astrological sign, so both sides of the implication are false, and never forget: false = false = 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: 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: 237 Context: # 9.2. TYPES OF PROOF ## TRITE ## WRITE ## WHITE Here, we had to temporarily change our first letter three different times — two of which seemingly brought us no nearer to WHITE — in order to successfully forge a path through the tangled forest. Knowing which direction to set out on is a matter of intuition plus trial and error. Given the axioms of any system (whether algebra, predicate logic, sets, etc.), there are an unfathomable number of different ways to proceed. The vast majority of them are bound to lead to dead ends. This is why a valid proof, when it is finished, is often an elegant and beautiful thing. It’s a thin braid of jewels glistening in the midst of a whole lot of mud. ## Indirect proof Also known as a proof by contradiction or reductio ad absurdum, the indirect proof starts in a completely opposite way. It says, “Okay, I’m trying to prove X. Well, suppose for the sake of argument I assume that the opposite — not X — is true. Where would that lead me?” If you follow all the rules and it leads you to a contradiction, this tells you that the original assumption of ¬X must have been false. And this in turn proves that X must be true. We do this all the time in our thinking. Say you’re driving down the highway. How do you know that the alternator in your engine is working? A direct proof would require that you open the hood and examine the part, testing to ensure it works properly. An indirect proof simply says, “Well, suppose it weren’t working properly. Then my car engine wouldn’t operate. But here I am, driving down the road, and the engine obviously does operate, so that tells me that the alternator must be working properly.” One of the most famous indirect proof dates from Euclid’s *Elements* in 300 B.C. It proves that the square root of 2 is an irrational number, a great surprise to mathematicians at the time (most of whom doubted the very existence of irrational numbers). Remember... #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 238 Context: 230 # CHAPTER 9. PROOF An irrational number is one that **cannot** be expressed as the ratio of two integers, no matter what the integers are. Proving this directly seems pretty hard, since how do you prove that there aren't any two integers whose ratio is \(\sqrt{2}\), no matter how hard you looked? I mean, \(534,927\) and \(378,250\) are pretty dang close: \[ \left( \frac{534927}{378250} \right)^2 = 2.000005. \] How could we possibly prove that no matter how hard we look, we can never find a pair that will give it to us exactly? One way is to assume that \(\sqrt{2}\) is a rational number, and then prove that down that path lies madness. It goes like this: Suppose \(\sqrt{2}\) is rational, after all. That means that there must be two integers, call them \(a\) and \(b\), whose ratio is exactly equal to \(\sqrt{2}\): \[ \frac{a}{b} = \sqrt{2}. \] This, then, is the starting point for our indirect proof. We're going to proceed under this assumption and see where it leads us. By the way, it's clear that we could always reduce this fraction to lowest terms in case it's not already. For instance, if \(a = 6\) and \(b = 4\), then our fraction would be \(\frac{3}{2}\), which is the same as \(\frac{6}{4}\), so we could just say \(a = 3\) and \(b = 2\) and start over. Bottom line: if \(\sqrt{2}\) is rational, then we can find two integers \(a\) and \(b\) that have no common factor (if they do have a common factor, we'll just divide it out of both of them and go with the new numbers) whose ratio is \(\sqrt{2}\). Okay then. But now look what happens. Suppose we square both: #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 240 Context: 232 # CHAPTER 9. PROOF “recursion,” because this is exactly what it is. Remember that we discussed recursion in the context of rooted trees (see p.116). A tree can be thought of as a node with several children—each of which are, in turn, trees. Each of them is the root node of a tree comprised of yet smaller trees, and so on and so forth. If you flip back to the left-hand side of Figure 5.16 on p.113, you’ll see that A is the root of one tree, and its two children, F and B, are roots of their own smaller trees in turn. If we were to traverse this tree in (say) pre-order, we’d visit the root, then visit the left and right subtrees in turn, treating each of them as their own tree. In this way we’ve broken up a larger problem (traversing the big tree) into smaller problems (traversing the smaller trees F and B). The A node has very little to do: it just visits itself, then defers all the rest of the work onto its children. This idea of pawning off most of the work onto smaller subproblems that you trust will work is key to the idea of inductive proofs. Mathematical induction is hard to wrap your head around because it feels like cheating. It seems like you never actually prove anything: you defer all the work to someone else, and then declare victory. But the chain of reasoning, though delicate, is strong as iron. ## Casting the problem in the right form Let’s examine that chain. The first thing you have to be able to do is express the thing you’re trying to prove as a predicate about natural numbers. In other words, you need to form a predicate that has one input, which is a natural number. You’re setting yourself up to prove that the predicate is true for all natural numbers. (Or at least, all natural numbers of at least a certain size.) Suppose I want to prove that in the state of Virginia, all legal drinkers can vote. Then I could say “let VOTE(n) be the proposition that a citizen of age n can vote.” If I want to prove an algebraic identity, like \[ \sum_{i=1}^{n} \frac{i}{n+1} = \frac{n(n+1)}{2}, \] then I have to figure out which variable is the one that needs to vary across the natural numbers. In this case it’s the \( n \) variable in my equation. #################### 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: 246 Context: # CHAPTER 9. PROOF 1. **Base Case**. We prove that \( P(1) \) is true simply by plugging it in. Setting \( n = 1 \), we have \[ (ab)^1 = a^1b^1 \] \( ab = ab \) ✓ 2. **Inductive Step**. We now must prove that \( P(k) \) = \( P(k + 1) \). 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 \( P(k) \) is true means we can count on the fact that \[ (ab)^k = a^k b^k. \] What we need to do, then, is prove that \( P(k + 1) \) is true, which amounts to proving that \[ (ab)^{k+1} = a^{k+1} b^{k+1}. \] Now we know by the very definition of exponents that: \[ (ab)^{k+1} = ab(ab)^k. \] Adding in our inductive hypothesis then lets us determine: \[ (ab)^{k+1} = ab(ab)^k = ab \cdot a^k \cdot b^k = a^{k+1} \cdot b^{k} \cdot b = a^{k+1} b^{k+1} ✓ \] 3. **Conclusion**. Therefore, for all \( n \geq 1 \), \( P(n) \) is true. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 251 Context: # 9.3. PROOF BY INDUCTION ## 2. Inductive Step We now must prove that \((\forall i \leq k) P(i) \Rightarrow P(k + 1)\). Put another way, we assume that all trees smaller than the one we’re looking at have one more node than edge, and then use that assumption to prove that the tree we’re looking at also has one more node than edge. We proceed as follows. Take any free tree with \(k + 1\) nodes. Removing any edge gives you two free trees, each with \(k\) nodes or less. (Why? Well, if you remove any edge from a free tree, the nodes will no longer be connected, since a free tree is “minimally connected” as it is. And we can't break it into more than two trees by removing a single edge, since the edge connects exactly two nodes and each group of nodes on the other side of the removed edge are still connected to each other.) Now the sum of the nodes in these two smaller trees is still \(k + 1\). (This is because we haven't removed any nodes from the original free tree — we've simply removed an edge.) If we let \(k_1\) be the number of nodes in the first tree, and \(k_2\) the number of nodes in the second, we have \(k_1 + k_2 = k + 1\). Okay, but how many edges does the first tree have? Answer: \(k_1 - 1\). How do we know that? By the inductive hypothesis. We’re assuming that any tree smaller than \(k + 1\) nodes has one less edge than node, and so we’re taking advantage of that (legal) assumption here. Similarly, the second tree has \(k_2 - 1\) edges. Bingo. Removing one edge from our original tree of \(k + 1\) nodes gave us a total of \(k - 1\) edges. Therefore, that original tree must have had \(k\) edges. We have now proven that a tree of \(k + 1\) nodes has \(k\) edges, assuming that all smaller trees also have one less edge than node. ## 3. Conclusion Therefore, by the strong form of mathematical induction, \(\forall n \geq 1, P(n)\). #################### 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: 253 Context: # Index - n-choose-k notation, 156 - n-to-the-k-falling operator, 152 - a priori, 68 - modus ponens, 201, 226 - modus tollens, 226 - quad erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.), 226 - reductio ad absurdum, 229 - acyclic (graphs), 91 - additivity property, 63 - adjacent (vertices), 89 - algorithm, 97, 127, 128, 132, 149, 150 - Ali, Muhammad, 92 - American Idol, 62, 68 - ancestor (of a node), 115 - and (logical operator), 18, 199, 203 - antisymmetric (relation), 40, 43 - Appel, Kenneth, 244 - arrays, 13 - artificial intelligence (AI), 197, 201, 225 - associative, 20 - asymmetric (relation), 41 - ATM machines, 143 - atomic (propositions), 198 - AVL trees, 133 - axioms, 226, 229 - background knowledge, 68, 70 - balancedness (of a tree), 132 - base case (of a proof), 233, 240 - bases (of number systems), 166, 168, 170 - Bayes' Theorem, 75 - Bayes, Thomas, 67 - Bayesian, 66 - BFT (breadth-first traversal), 95, 97 - Big-O notation, 127 - bijective (function), 49 - binary numbers, 25, 177, 178, 180, 182 - binary search trees, 123, 125 - binomial coefficients, 156 - bit, 177 - Booth, John Wilkes, 86 - BST property, 125, 131 - byte, 180 #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 258 Context: # CHAPTER 9. PROOF ## Spiderman: No Way Home - stack, 99, 101 - strong form of induction, 240 - subsets, 23, 35 - proper subsets, 23 - subtree (of a node), 116 - summation operator (Σ), 73, 143 - surjective (function), 49 - symmetric (relation), 40, 93 - tantalologies, 207 - tentative best distance, 103 - text mining, 77 - theorems, 227 - top (of a stack), 99 - total orders, 44 - transitive (relation), 41, 43 - traversal, 95, 117 - trees, 85, 111, 112 - truth tables, 203, 206, 209 - truth value (of a proposition), 197 - tuples, 15, 212 - two's-complement binary numbers, 185, 189 - typed, 13 ## Additional Concepts - unary operator, 200, 204 - undirected graphs, 88, 93 - union (of sets), 189, 208, 227 - universal quantifier (∀), 212, 214 - universal set, 9 - unsigned binary numbers, 183, 189 - untyped, 13 ## Diagrams and Figures - Venn diagrams, 63, 227 - Venn, John, 67 - vertex/vertices, 86, 87 - visiting (a node), 97, 104 - voting age, 232, 234 ## Induction and Weighting - weak form of induction, 233 - weight (of an edge), 88 - weighted graphs, 88, 101 - weightlifting, 159 ## Notable References - Wiles, Andrew, 244 - world ladders, 227 - World War II, 103 - World Wide Web, 87 - WWE wrestling, 72 - xor (logical operator), 199, 203 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 1 Context: # A First Encounter with Machine Learning **Max Welling** *Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science* *University of California Irvine* November 4, 2011 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: # PREFACE about 60% correct on 100 categories, the fact that we pull it off seemingly effortlessly serves as a “proof of concept” that it can be done. But there is no doubt in my mind that building truly intelligent machines will involve learning from data. The first reason for the recent successes of machine learning and the growth of the field as a whole is rooted in its multidisciplinary character. Machine learning emerged from AI but quickly incorporated ideas from fields as diverse as statistics, probability, computer science, information theory, convex optimization, control theory, cognitive science, theoretical neuroscience, physics, and more. To give an example, the main conference in this field is called: **advances in neural information processing systems**, referring to information theory and theoretical neuroscience and cognitive science. The second, perhaps more important reason for the growth of machine learning is the exponential growth of both available data and computer power. While the field is built on theory and tools developed statistics machine learning recognizes that the most exciting progress can be made to leverage the enormous flood of data that is generated each year by satellites, sky observatories, particle accelerators, the human genome project, banks, the stock market, the army, seismic measurements, the internet, video, scanned text, and so on. It is difficult to appreciate the exponential growth of data that our society is generating. To give an example, a modern satellite generates roughly the same amount of data all previous satellites produced together. This insight has shifted the attention from highly sophisticated modeling techniques on small datasets to more basic analysis on such larger data-sets (the latter sometimes called **data-mining**). Hence the emphasis shifted to algorithmic efficiency and as a result many machine learning faculty (like myself) can typically be found in computer science departments. To give some examples of recent successes of this approach one would only have to turn on one computer and perform an internet search. Modern search engines do not run terribly sophisticated algorithms, but they manage to store and sift through almost the entire content of the internet to return sensible search results. There has also been much success in the field of machine translation, not because a new model was invented but because many more translated documents became available. The field of machine learning is multifaceted and expanding fast. To sample a few sub-disciplines: statistical learning, kernel methods, graphical models, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, Bayesian methods, and so on. The field also covers many types of learning problems, such as supervised learning, supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, active learning, reinforcement learning, etc. I will only cover the most basic approaches in this book from a highly per #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # MEANT FOR INDUSTRY AS WELL AS BACKGROUND READING This book was written during my sabbatical at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands). I would like to thank Hans for discussion on intuition. I also thank Prof. Bert Kappen, who leads an excellent group of postdocs and students for his hospitality. Marga, kids, UCI,... --- There are a few main aspects I want to cover from a personal perspective. Instead of trying to address every aspect of the entire field, I have chosen to present a few popular and perhaps useful tools and approaches. What will (hopefully) be significantly different than most other scientific books is the manner in which I will present these methods. I have always been frustrated by the lack of proper explanation of equations. Many times, I have been staring at a formula without the slightest clue where it came from or how it was derived. Many books also excel in stating facts in an almost encyclopedic style, without providing the proper intuition of the method. This is my primary mission: to write a book that conveys intuition. The first chapter will be devoted to why I think this is important. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 9 Context: # Learning and Intuition We have all experienced the situation that the solution to a problem presents itself while riding your bike, walking home, “relaxing” in the washroom, waking up in the morning, taking your shower, etc. Importantly, it did not appear while banging your head against the problem in a conscious effort to solve it, staring at the equations on a piece of paper. In fact, I would claim that all my bits and pieces of progress have occurred while taking a break and “relaxing out of the problem.” Greek philosophers walked in circles when thinking about a problem; most of us stare at a computer screen all day. The purpose of this chapter is to make you more aware of where your creative mind is located and to interact with it in a fruitful manner. My general thesis is that, contrary to popular belief, creative thinking is not performed by conscious thinking. It is rather an interplay between your conscious mind, which prepares the seeds to be planted into the unconscious part of your mind. The unconscious mind will munch on the problem “out of sight” and return promising roads to solutions to the consciousness. This process iterates until the conscious mind decides the problem is sufficiently solved, intractable, or plain dull and moves on to the next. It may be a little unsettling to learn that at least part of your thinking goes on in a part of your mind that seems inaccessible and has a very limited interface with what you think of as yourself. But it is undeniable that it is there, and it is also undeniable that it plays a role in the creative thought process. To become a creative thinker, one should learn to play this game more effectively. To do so, we should think about the language in which to represent knowledge that is most effective in terms of communication with the unconscious. In other words, what type of “interface” between conscious and unconscious mind should we use? It is probably not a good idea to memorize all the details of a complicated equation or problem. Instead, we should extract the abstract idea and capture the essence of it in a picture. This could be a movie with colors and other elements. #################### 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: 12 Context: I'm unable to assist with that. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 24 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING They understood that this was a lion. They understood that all lions have these particular characteristics in common, but may differ in some other ones (like the presence of a scar or scar someplace). Bob has another disease which is called over-generalization. Once he has seen an object he believes almost everything is some, perhaps twisted instance of the same object class (In fact, I seem to suffer from this so now and then when I think all of machine learning can be explained by this one new exciting principle). If ancestral Bob walks the savanna and he has just encountered an instance of a lion and fled into a tree with his buddies, the next time he sees a squirrel he believes it is a small instance of a dangerous lion and flees into the trees again. Over-generalization seems to be rather common among small children. One of the main conclusions from this discussion is that we should neither over-generalize nor over-fit. We need to be on the edge of being just right. But just right about what? It doesn’t seem there is one correct God-given definition of the category chairs. We seem to all agree, but one can surely find examples that would be difficult to classify. When do we generalize exactly right? The magic word is **PREDICTION**. From an evolutionary standpoint, all we have to do is make correct predictions about aspects of life that help us survive. Nobody really cares about the definition of lion, but we do care about our responses to the various animals (run away for lion, chase for deer). And there are a lot of things that can be predicted in the world. This food kills me but food is good for me. Drumming my fists on my hairy chest in front of a female generates opportunities for sex; sticking my hand into that yellow-orange flickering “flame” hurts my hand and so on. The world is wonderfully predictable and we are very good at predicting it. So why do we care about object categories in the first place? Well, apparently they help us organize the world and make accurate predictions. The category *lions* is an abstraction and abstractions help us to generalize. In a certain sense, learning is all about finding useful abstractions or concepts that describe the world. Take the concept “fluid”; it describes all watery substances and summarizes some of their physical properties. Or the concept of “weight”: an abstraction that describes a certain property of objects. Here is one very important corollary for you: > “machine learning is not in the business of remembering and regurgitating observed information, it is in the business of transferring (generalizing) properties from observed data onto new, yet unobserved data.” This is the mantra of machine learning that you should repeat to yourself every night before you go to bed (at least until the final exam). The information we receive from the world has two components to it: there #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 28 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING ## Introduction Learning involves acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or competencies. It can take place in various settings, such as classrooms, workplaces, or self-directed environments. This chapter discusses the types and processes of learning. ## Types of Learning 1. **Formal Learning** - Structured and typically takes place in educational institutions. - Includes degrees, diplomas, and certifications. 2. **Informal Learning** - Unstructured and occurs outside formal institutions. - Can include life experiences, social interactions, and casual settings. 3. **Non-Formal Learning** - Organized but not typically in a formal education setting. - Often community-based, such as workshops and training sessions. ## Learning Processes - **Cognitive Learning**: Involves mental processes and understanding. - **Behavioral Learning**: Focuses on behavioral changes in response to stimuli. - **Constructivist Learning**: Emphasizes learning through experience and reflection. ## Table of Learning Theories | Theory | Key Contributor | Description | |--------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | Behaviorism | B.F. Skinner | Learning as a change in behavior due to reinforcement. | | Constructivism | Jean Piaget | Knowledge is constructed through experiences. | | Social Learning | Albert Bandura | Learning through observation and imitation. | ## Conclusion Understanding the different types and processes of learning can help educators and learners optimize educational experiences. Utilizing various methods can cater to individual learning preferences and improve outcomes. ## References - Smith, J. (2020). *Learning Theories: A Comprehensive Approach*. Educational Press. - Doe, A. (2019). *Techniques for Effective Learning*. Learning Publishers. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: fall under the name "reinforcement learning". It is a very general setup in which almost all known cases of machine learning can be cast, but this generally also means that these types of problems can be very difficult. The most general RL problems do not even assume that you know what the world looks like (i.e. the maze for the mouse), so you have to simultaneously learn a model of the world and solve your task in it. This dual task induces interesting trade-offs: should you invest time now to learn machine learning and reap the benefit later in terms of a high salary working for Yahoo!, or should you stop investing now and start exploiting what you have learned so far? This is clearly a function of age, or the time horizon that you still have to take advantage of these investments. The mouse is similarly confronted with the problem of whether he should try out this new alley in the maze that can cut down his time to reach the cheese considerably, or whether he should simply stay with what he has learned and take the route he already knows. This clearly depends on how often he thinks he will have to run through the same maze in the future. We call this the exploration versus exploitation trade-off. The reason that RL is a very exciting field of research is because of its biological relevance. Do we not also have to figure out how the world works and survive in it? Let's go back to the news-articles. Assume we have control over what article we will label next. Which one would be pick? Surely the one that would be most informative in some suitably defined sense. Or the mouse in the maze. Given that it needs to explore, where does he explore? Surely he will try to seek out alleys that look promising, i.e. alleys that he expects to maximize his reward. We call the problem of finding the next best data-case to investigate "active learning". One may also be faced with learning multiple tasks at the same time. These tasks are related but not identical. For instance, consider the problem if recommending movies to customers of Netflix. Each person is different and would require a separate model to make the recommendations. However, people also share commonalities, especially when people show evidence of being of the same "type" (for example a fan of a comedy fan). We can learn personalized models but share features between them. Especially for new customers, where we don’t have access to any movies that were rated by the customer, we need to "draw statistical strength" from customers who seem to be similar. From this example it is hopefully become clearer that we are trying to learn models for many different yet related problems and that we can build better models if we share some of the things learned for one task with the other ones. The trick is not to share too much nor too little and how much we should share depends on how much data and prior knowledge we have access to for each task. We call this subfield of machine learning: "multi-task learning". #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 40 Context: 28 # CHAPTER 6. THE NATIVE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER For ham emails, we compute exactly the same quantity, $$ P_{ham}(X_i = j) = \frac{ \# \text{ ham emails for which the word } j \text{ was found} }{ \text{total } \# \text{ of ham emails} } $$ (6.5) $$ = \frac{\sum_{n} \mathbb{I}(X_{n} = j \land Y_{n} = 0)}{ \sum_{n} \mathbb{I}(Y_{n} = 0)} $$ (6.6) Both these quantities should be computed for all words or phrases (or more generally attributes). We have now finished the phase where we estimate the model from the data. We will often refer to this phase as "learning" or training a model. The model helps us understand how data was generated in some approximate setting. The next phase is that of prediction or classification of new email. ## 6.3 Class-Prediction for New Instances New email does not come with a label ham or spam (if it would we could throw spam in the spam-box right away). What we do see are the attributes $\{X_i\}$. Our task is to guess the label based on the model and the measured attributes. The approach we take is simple: calculate whether the email has a higher probability of being generated from the spam or the ham model. For example, because the word "viagra" has a tiny probability of being generated under the ham model it will end up with a higher probability under the spam model. But clearly, all words have a say in this process. It’s like a large committee of experts, one for each word; each member casts a vote and can say things like: "I am 99% certain its spam", or "It’s almost definitely not spam (0.1% spam)". Each of these opinions will be multiplied together to generate a final score. We then figure out whether ham or spam has the highest score. There is one little practical caveat with this approach, namely that the product of a large number of probabilities, each of which is necessarily smaller than one, very quickly gets so small that your computer can’t handle it. There is an easy fix though. Instead of multiplying probabilities as scores, we use the logarithms of those probabilities and add the logarithms. This is numerically stable and leads to the same conclusion because if \(a > b\) then we also have \(\log(a) > \log(b)\) and vice versa. In equations we compute the score as follows: $$ S_{spam} = \sum_{i} \log P_{spam}(X_i = e_i) + \log P(spam) $$ (6.7) #################### 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: 1 Context: # A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2018), “A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers”, Vol. XX, No. XX, pp 1–231. DOI: XXX. Osvaldo Simeone Department of Informatics King’s College London osvaldo.simeone@kcl.ac.uk #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: # Contents I Basics 5 1 Introduction 6 1.1 What is Machine Learning? 6 1.2 When to Use Machine Learning? 8 1.3 Goals and Outline 11 2 A Gentle Introduction through Linear Regression 15 2.1 Supervised Learning 15 2.2 Inference 17 2.3 Frequentist Approach 19 2.4 Bayesian Approach 36 2.5 Minimum Description Length (MDL) 42 2.6 Information-Theoretic Metrics 44 2.7 Interpretation and Causality 47 2.8 Summary 49 3 Probabilistic Models for Learning 51 3.1 Preliminaries 52 3.2 The Exponential Family 53 3.3 Frequentist Learning 59 #################### 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: 13 Context: # 1.1. What is Machine Learning? This starts with an in-depth analysis of the problem domain, which culminates with the definition of a mathematical model. The mathematical model is meant to capture the key features of the problem under study and is typically the result of the work of a number of experts. The mathematical model is finally leveraged to derive hand-crafted solutions to the problem. For instance, consider the problem of defining a chemical process to produce a given molecule. The conventional flow requires chemists to leverage their knowledge of models that predict the outcome of individual chemical reactions, in order to craft a sequence of suitable steps that synthesize the desired molecule. Another example is the design of speech translation or image/video compression algorithms. Both of these tasks involve the definition of models and algorithms by teams of experts, such as linguists, psychologists, and signal processing practitioners, not infrequently during the course of long standardization meetings. The engineering design flow outlined above may be too costly and inefficient for problems in which faster or less expensive solutions are desirable. The machine learning alternative is to collect large data sets, e.g., of labeled speech, images, or videos, and to use this information to train general-purpose learning machines to carry out the desired task. While the standard engineering flow relies on domain knowledge and on design optimized for the problem at hand, machine learning lets large amounts of data dictate algorithms and solutions. To this end, rather than requiring a precise model of the set-up under study, machine learning requires the specification of an objective, of a model to be trained, and of an optimization technique. Returning to the first example above, a machine learning approach would proceed by training a general-purpose machine to predict the outcome of known chemical reactions based on a large data set, and then by using the trained algorithm to explore ways to produce more complex molecules. In a similar manner, large data sets of images or videos would be used to train a general-purpose algorithm with the aim of obtaining compressed representations from which the original input can be recovered with some distortion. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 17 Context: # 1.3 Goals and Outline This monograph considers only passive and offline learning. ## 1.3 Goals and Outline This monograph aims at providing an introduction to key concepts, algorithms, and theoretical results in machine learning. The treatment concentrates on probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised learning problems. It introduces fundamental concepts and algorithms by building on first principles, while also exposing the reader to more advanced topics with extensive pointers to the literature, within a unified notation and mathematical framework. Unlike other texts that are focused on one particular aspect of the field, an effort has been made here to provide a broad but concise overview in which the main ideas and techniques are systematically presented. Specifically, the material is organized according to clearly defined categories, such as discriminative and generative models, frequentist and Bayesian approaches, exact and approximate inference, as well as directed and undirected models. This monograph is meant as an entry point for researchers with a background in probability and linear algebra. A prior exposure to information theory is useful but not required. Detailed discussions are provided on basic concepts and ideas, including overfitting and generalization, Maximum Likelihood and regularization, and Bayesian inference. The text also endeavors to provide intuitive explanations and pointers to advanced topics and research directions. Sections and subsections containing more advanced material that may be regarded at a first reading are marked with a star (+). The reader will find here further discussions on computing platform or programming frameworks, such as map-reduce, nor details on specific applications involving large data sets. These can be easily found in a vast and growing body of work. Furthermore, rather than providing exhaustive details on the existing myriad solutions in each specific category, techniques have been selected that are useful to illustrate the most salient aspects. Historical notes have also been provided only for a few selected milestone events. Finally, the monograph attempts to strike a balance between the algorithmic and theoretical viewpoints. In particular, all learning algorithms are presented in a manner that emphasizes their theoretical foundations while also providing practical insights. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 20 Context: # Introduction from *The Computer and the Brain*, 1958. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 49 Context: # 2.5. Minimum Description Length (MDL) In a gray scale image, fix some probability mass function (pmf) \( p(x) \) on this alphabet. A key result in information theory states that it is possible to design a lossless compression scheme that uses \( [-\log p(x)] \) bits to represent value \( x \). By virtue of this result, the choice of a probability distribution \( p(x) \) is akin to the selection of a lossless compression scheme that produces a description of around \( -\log p(x) \) bits to represent value \( x \). Note that the description length \( -\log p(x) \) decreases with the probability assigned by \( p(x) \) to value \( x \): more likely values under \( p(x) \) are assigned a smaller description. Importantly, a decoder would need to know \( p(x) \) in order to recover \( x \) from the bit description. At an informal level, the MDL criterion prescribes the selection of a model that compresses the training data to the shortest possible description. In other words, the model selected by MDL defines a compression scheme that describes the data set \( D \) with the minimum number of bits. As such, the MDL principle can be thought of as a formalization of Occam’s razor: choose the model that yields the simplest explanation of the data. As we will see below, this criterion naturally leads to a solution that penalizes overfitting. ### What is the length of the description of a data set \( D \) that results from the selection of a specific value of \( M \)? The answer is not straightforward, since, for a given value of \( M \), there are as many probability distributions as there are values for the corresponding parameters \( \theta \) to choose from. A formal calculation of the description length would hence require the introduction of the concept of universal compression for a given probabilistic model \( \theta \). Here, we will limit ourselves to a particular class of universal codes known as two-part codes. Using two-part codes, we can compute the description length for the data \( D \) that results from the choice of a model over \( M \) as follows. First, we obtain the ML solution \( (m_{ML}, \hat{\theta}_{ML}) \). Then, we describe the data set by using a compression scheme defined by the probability \( p(x | m_{ML}, \hat{\theta}_{ML}) \). As discussed, this pro- #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 56 Context: 50 # A Gentle Introduction through Linear Regression When the number of data points goes to infinity; while the latter is parameterized and is subject to optimization. For this reason, divergence metrics between the two distributions play an important role in the development of learning algorithms. We will see in the rest of the monograph that other frequentist methods may involve a single distribution rather than two, as discussed in Sec. 6.6 or an additional, so-called variational distribution, as covered in Sec. 6.3 and Chapter 8. In contrast, Bayesian methods posit a single coherent distribution over the data and the parameters, and frame the learning problem as one of inference of unobserved variables. As we will discuss in Chapter 8, variational Bayesian methods also introduce an additional variational distribution and are a building block for frequentist learning in the presence of unobserved variables. The running example in this chapter has been one of linear regression for a Gaussian model. The next chapter provides the necessary tools to construct and learn more general probabilistic models. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 98 Context: ``` ## 4.4.2 Learning Consider first ML. The NLL function can be written as \[ -\ln p(t|x, \mathbf{w}) = -\sum_{n=1}^{N} \ln p(t_n|x_n, \mathbf{w}) \tag{4.23} \] \[ = -\sum_{n=1}^{N} \{t_n \ln(y_n) + (1 - t_n) \ln(1 - y_n)\} \tag{4.24} \] where we have defined \(y_n = \sigma(\mathbf{w}^T \phi(x_n))\). The NLL (4.23) is also referred to as the cross-entropy loss criterion, since the term \(-t_n \ln(y_n) - (1 - t_n) \ln(1 - y_n)\) is the cross-entropy \(H(t_n || y_n) = -\sum_{i} t_i \ln(y_i)\) (see Sec. 2.6). We note that the cross-entropy can be used to obtain upper bounds on the probability of error (see, e.g., [50]). The ML problem of minimizing the NLL is convex (see Sec. 3.1), and hence it can be solved either directly using convex optimization tools, or by using iterative methods such as SGD or Newton (the latter yields the iterative reweighted least squares algorithm [23, p. 207]). The development of these methods leverages the expression of the gradient of the LL function (3.28) (used with \(N = 1\) for the exponential family). To elaborate, using the chain rule for differentiation, we can write the gradient \[ \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} p(t | x, \mathbf{w}) = \nabla_{t} \text{Bern}(t_n) |_{t_n=t} \cdot \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} \sigma(\mathbf{w}^T \phi(x_n)) \tag{4.25} \] which, recalling that \(\nabla_{\ln(\text{Bern}(t_n))} = (t - \sigma(\cdot))\) (cf. (3.28)), yields \[ \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} p(t | \mathbf{w}) = (t - y) \sigma \tag{4.26} \] Evaluating the exact posterior distribution for the Bayesian approach turns out to be generally intractable due to the difficulty in normalizing the posterior \[ p(\mathbf{w}) \propto p(t) \prod_{n=1}^{N} p(t_n | x_n, \mathbf{w}) \tag{4.27} \] We refer to [23, pp. 217-220] for an approximate solution based on Laplace approximation. Other useful approximate methods will be discussed in Chapter 8. ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 130 Context: # 5.4 VC Dimension and Fundamental Theorem of PAC Learning We have seen that finite classes are PAC learnable with sample complexity proportional to the model capacity in \(|H|\) by using ERM. In this section, we address the following questions: Is \(N_{\text{SRM}}(N,\delta)\) the smallest sample complexity? How can we define the capacity of infinite hypothesis classes? We have discussed at the end of Section 5.3 that the answer to the latter question cannot be found by extrapolating from results obtained when considering finite hypothesis classes. In contrast, we will see here that the answers to both of these questions rely on the concept of VC dimension, which serves as a more fundamental definition of capacity of a model. The VC dimension is defined next. ## Definition 5.4 A hypothesis class \(\mathcal{H}\) is said to shatter a set of domain points \(X = \{x_1,\ldots,x_n\}\) if, no matter how the corresponding labels \(\{y_i \in \{0,1\}\}\) are selected, there exists a hypothesis \(h \in \mathcal{H}\) that ensures \(\hat{y}_{n} = y_n\) for all \(n = 1,\ldots,V\). ## Definition 5.5 The VC dimension \(\text{VCdim}(\mathcal{H})\) of the model \(\mathcal{H}\) is the size of the largest set \(X\) that is shattered by \(\mathcal{H}\). Based on the definitions above, to prove that a model has VCdim(\(\mathcal{H}\)) = V, we need to carry out the following two steps: 1. **Step 1:** Demonstrate the existence of a set \(X\) with \(|X| = V\) that is shattered by \(\mathcal{H}\); 2. **Step 2:** Prove that no set \(X'\) of dimensions \(V + 1\) exists that is shattered by \(\mathcal{H}\). The second step is typically seen to be more difficult, as illustrated by the following examples. ## Example 5.3 The threshold function model (5.8) has VCdim(\(\mathcal{H}) = 1\), since there is clearly a set \(X\) of one sample (\(V = 1\)) that can be shattered. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 138 Context: # Unsupervised Learning may wish to cluster a set \( D \) of text documents according to their topics, by modeling the latter as an unobserved label \( z_n \). Broadly speaking, this requires to group together documents that are similar according to some metric. It is important at this point to emphasize the distinction between classification and clustering: While the former assumes the availability of a labelled set of training examples and evaluates its (generalization) performance on a separate set of unlabelled examples, the latter works with a single, unlabelled, set of examples. The different notation used for the labels \( z_n \) in lieu of \( t_n \) is meant to provide a reminder of this key difference. ## Dimensions reduction and representation: Given the set \( D \), we would like to represent the data points \( x_n \in D \) in a space of lower dimensionality. This makes it possible to highlight independent explanatory factors, and/or to ease visualization and interpretation [93], e.g., for text analysis via vector embedding (see, e.g., [124]). ## Feature extraction: Feature extraction is the task of deriving functions of the data points \( x_n \) that provide useful lower-dimensional inputs for tasks such as supervised learning. The extracted features are unobserved, and hence latent, variables. As an example, the hidden layer of a deep neural network extracts features from the data for use by the output layer (see Sec. 4.5). ## Generation of new samples: The goal here is to train a machine that is able to produce samples that are approximately distributed according to the true distribution \( p(x) \). For example, in computer graphics for filmmaking or gaming, one may want to train a software that is able to produce artistic scenes based on a given description. The variety of tasks and the difficulty in providing formal definitions, e.g., on the realism of an artificially generated image, may hinder unsupervised learning, at least in its current state, a less formal field than supervised learning. Often, loss criteria in unsupervised learning measure the divergence between the learned model and the empirical data distribution, but there are important exceptions, as we will see. #################### 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: 215 Context: A.1. Entropy 209 This is because the optimal estimate is the mode, i.e., the value ẋ with the largest probability p(ẋ). **Distributional Estimate.** We now consider a different type of estimation problem in which we are permitted to choose a pmf p(ẋ) on the alphabet X as the estimate for the outcome of variable x. To facilitate intuition, we can imagine p(ẋ) to represent the fraction of one’s wager that is invested on the outcome of x being a specific value x. Note that it may not be necessarily optimal to put all of one’s money on one value x'! In fact, this depends on how we measure the reward, or conversely the cost, obtained when a value x = x is realized. To this end, we define a non-negative loss function ℓ(ẋ, p̂x) representing the loss, or the “negative gain”, suffered when the value x = x is observed. This loss should sensibly be a decreasing function of p(ẋ) – we register a smaller loss, or conversely a larger gain, when we have wagered more on the actual outcome x. As a fairly general class of loss functions, we can hence define \[ ℓ(ẋ, p̂x) = f(p̂(x)), \] where f is a decreasing function. More general classes of loss functions are considered in [46]. Denote Δ(X) the simplex of pmfs defined over alphabet X. The generalized entropy can now be defined in a way that is formally equivalent to (A.1), with the only difference being the optimization over pmf p̂x, rather than over point estimate ẋ: \[ H(p̂x) = \min_{p ∈ Δ(X)} \mathbb{E}_{p_x}[ℓ(x, p̂x)]. \] A key example of loss function ℓ(ẋ, p̂x) in (A.3) is the log-loss ℓ(ẋ, p̂x) = - log(p̂(x)). The log-loss has a strong motivation in terms of lossless compression. In fact, as discussed in Sec. 2.5, by Kraft's inequality, it is possible to design a prefix-free and hence decodable without delay – lossless compression scheme that uses - log p̂(x) bits to represent value x. As a result, the choice of a pmf p̂x is linked to the selection of a prefix-free lossless compression scheme that requires a description of around - ln p(ẋ) bits to represent value x. The expectation in (A.4) measures the corresponding average number of bits required for lossless compression by the given scheme. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 220 Context: 214 # Appendix A: Information Measures The latter can be written as: $$ JS(P_x||Q_x) = KL(P_x || m_x) + KL(Q_x || m_x), $$ (Equation A.13) where \( m_x(x) = (p_x(x) + q_x(x))/2 \). Another special case, which generalizes the KL divergence and other metrics, is the \( \alpha \)-divergence discussed in Chapter 8 (see (8.16)), which is obtained with \( f(x) = ( \alpha(x - 1) - (x^\alpha - 1)/( \alpha - 1) \) for some real-valued parameter \( \alpha \). We refer to [107, 45] for other examples. The discussion above justified the adoption of the loss function (A.11) in a heuristic fashion. It is, however, possible to derive formal relationships between the error probability of binary hypothesis testing and \( f \)-divergences [21]. We also refer to the classical Sanov lemma and Stein lemma as fundamental applications of KL divergence to large deviation and hypothesis testing [38]. 2The Jensen-Shannon divergence, as defined above, is proportional to the mutual information \( I(s,x) \) for the joint distribution \( p_{s,x}(s,x) = \frac{1}{2}p_{x|s}(x|s) \) with binary \( s \), and conditional pdf defined as \( p_{x|s}(x|s) = p_x(x) \) and \( p_{x|s}(s|x) = q_x(x) \). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 223 Context: # Acknowledgements Osvaldo Simeone has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 725731). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 230 Context: ```markdown # References [72] Jain, P. and P. 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