Topics for Comprehensive Exam in Mat 637
Logic:
Implications, Quantifiers, Negations, Converse and Contrapositive
Induction:
Simple induction proofs
Number Theory:
Prime Numbers, Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple, Euclidean
Algorithm and Chinese Remainder Theorem
Combinatorics:
Definitions and simple examples for Permutations and Combinations, Pigeonhole
Principle
Topics for Comprehensive Exam in Mat 604
Axioms for Counting Numbers
Induction and basic properties of Counting Numbers
Rational Numbers
Definition and basic properties
Place Value Representation
Base n representation of counting numbers and rationals, addition
Farey numbers and Continued fractions: real numbers