Some words about the final:
It will cover all the material we covered in class. This means
everything from sections 1-29
of the book, except the things we didn't cover, plus the things outside
the book that we did cover.
Specifically:
Sections 1-29
MINUS
Theorems 10.3,
15.5, 15.6,
19.4, 19.5,
23.2,
26.2, 26.3,
27.2, 27.3,
Section 16,
Section 21,
Part of Section 24;
PLUS
Ramsey numbers,
Parking functions,
Chromatic number of R2
The king chicken theorems
Markov chains and stationary distributions
The exam will be comprehensive, but it will focus on the material from
the second half of the course.
Most of the problems will be similar in flavor to the homework problems.
The format will be like the midterm: a combination of computations
and proofs. There may also
be a few True/False questions. There will be 10 problems in all
(problems may have several parts).
You will have three hours, but I hope it doesn't take that long.