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<p>Rwf: /* Proposed Catalog Changes */</p> <hr /> <div>== Proposed Catalog Changes ==<br /> * Delete Math 343 from prerequisites. (It's redundant.)--[[User:Cpg|Cpg]] 12:00, 8 May 2008 (MDT)<br /> <br /> I agree that the 343 prerequisite is redundant, but it serves<br /> a purpose. It warns the student that he can't simply forget<br /> linear algebra, now that he's had 371. Linear algebra plays<br /> an important role in this class. <br /> <br /> In that regard, I consider 350 to have a special purpose. It is<br /> not just a grab-bag of miscellaneous tricks for solving finite<br /> counting problems. It is a nexus where several different areas<br /> of mathematics meet (calculus, differential equations, linear<br /> algebra and group theory, among others), and so it serves to <br /> reinforce those areas which the student may have grasped only<br /> incompletely before. <br /> <br /> I'd like to have a strong and robust description for this <br /> course, including linear recurrences and rational functions,<br /> Mobius inversion and inclusion/exclusion -- and Burnside,<br /> Polya counting. I'd also like to see us use calculus to<br /> derive the Binomial Formula and Stirling's Formula (or at<br /> least the first approximation to it). Rwf</div>

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