Course Summary

Math 225 introduces students to a few key ideas in discrete mathematics, including enumeration techniques, mathematical induction, generating functions, recurrence relations, and graph theory. For many students, this will also be one of the first classes they take that spends a considerable amount of class time discussing (and assigns a significant number of homework homework problems requiring) mathematical proof.

Course Instructor

The professor for this class is Andy Schultz. His office is on the fourth floor of the Science Center, room W408. You are highly encouraged to attend office hours, and you never need an appointment to do so. Office hours will typically be held in or just outside my office, and are held at the following times: Mondays from 2-3; Wednesdays from 10:30-11:20; Thursdays from 8:30-9:45; and Fridays from 11:30-1:00. If these office hours don't fit with your schedule, contact the instructor so that he can either adjust when "official" office hours are held or set up an appointment to help you outside of office hours.

You can contact the instructor at . Though he is always happy to receive emails from you with questions or concerns about the course, he can't guarantee that he'll be able to promptly reply to emails late at night or over the weekend. If you do contact the professor by email, please be sure to follow standard email etiquette. In particular, please make sure you include a greeting and signature and avoid abbreviations. If you're contacting him to ask about a problem, please be sure to specify what the problem asks (as opposed to asking something like "I can't get problem 2 and need your help").