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Mth401:Discrete Mathematics: Course Outcomes

This document outlines the course outcomes and units for the MTH401: Discrete Mathematics course. The course aims to help students understand logical proofs, solve recurrence relations, describe graph concepts and properties, and understand number theory applications. The six units cover topics like propositional logic, recurrence relations, counting principles, graph theory, and number theory. The primary textbook is Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth H Rosen.

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Mth401:Discrete Mathematics: Course Outcomes

This document outlines the course outcomes and units for the MTH401: Discrete Mathematics course. The course aims to help students understand logical proofs, solve recurrence relations, describe graph concepts and properties, and understand number theory applications. The six units cover topics like propositional logic, recurrence relations, counting principles, graph theory, and number theory. The primary textbook is Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth H Rosen.

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MTH401:DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to

CO1 :: understand various ways to prove or disapprove some logical statements.

CO2 :: solve recurrence relation by using different methods.

CO3 :: describe the concept of graphs and their properties.

CO4 :: understand various concepts of number theory and its applications.

Unit I
Logic and Proofs : Propositional logic, propositional equivalences, quantifiers, Introduction to proof,
direct proof,proof by contraposition, vacuous and trivial proof, proof strategy, proof by contradiction,
proof of equivalence and counterexamples, mistakes in proof
Unit II
Recurrence relations : recurrence relation, modelling with recurrence relations, homogeneous linear
recurrence relations with constant coefficients, Method of inverse operator to solve the non-
homogeneous recurrence relation with constant coefficient, generating functions, solution of
recurrence relation using generating functions
Unit III
Counting principles and relations : principle of Inclusion-Exclusion, Pigeonhole, generalized
pigeonhole principle, relations and their properties, combining relation, composition, representing
relation using matrices and graph, equivalence relations, partial and total ordering relations, lattice,
sub lattice, Hasse diagram and its components
Unit IV
Graphs theory I : graph terminologies, special types of graphs(complete, cycle, regular, wheel,
cube, bipartite and complete bipartite), representing graphs, adjacency and incidence matrix, graph-
isomorphism, path and connectivity for undirected and digraphs, Dijkstra’s algorithm for shortest path
problem
Unit V
Graphs theory II : planner graphs, Euler formula, colouring of a graph and chromatic number, tree
graph and its properties, rooted tree, spanning and minimum spanning tree, decision tree, infix,
prefix, and postfix notation
Unit VI
Number theory and its application in cryptography : divisibility and modular arithmetic, primes,
greatest common divisors and least common multiples, Euclidean algorithm, Bezout's lemma, linear
congruence, inverse of (a modulo m), Chinese remainder theorem, encryption and decryption by
Ceasar cipher and affine transformation, Fermat’s little theorem

Text Books:
1. DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS by KENNETH H ROSEN, MCGRAW HILL
EDUCATION
References:
1. HIGHER ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS by B. V. RAMANA, MC GRAW HILL

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