13MCA12 Discrete Mathematics Structure syllabus for MCA


Unit-1 Fundamentals of Logic 14 hours

Basic Connectives and Truth Tables, Logic Equivalence :The laws of Logic,Logical Implications: Rules of Inference, The use of Quantifiers, Quantifier Definitions,Proofs of Theorems.

Unit-2 Set Theory 7 hours

Sets and Subsets, Set Operations and the Laws of Set Theory, Counting and VennDiagrams, Principles of Inclusion and Exclusion, The rules of sum and product,Permutations and Combinations with repetition

Unit-3 Properties of Integers and Recurrence 7 hours

Mathematical Induction, Recursive definitions, The Greatest Common DivisorEuclidian Algorithms, The first order Linear recurrence relation.

Unit-4 Relations and Functions 14 hours

Cartesian products and Relations, Functions-Plain and One-to-One, Onto Functions,Stirling Numbers and the Second Kind, Special functions, The Pigeon-hole principle,Function composition and inverse functions. Properties of Relations, Computer recognition-Zero One Matrices and Directed graphs, Posets and Hasse Diagrams, Equivalence relationand Partitions, lattices.

Unit-5 Graph Theory and Trees 10 hours

Terminology, Definitions, Properties and Examples, Connectivity and Adjacency, Eulerand Hamilton, Representation and Isomorphism, Planarity and Chromatic Number, DirectedGraphs and Weighted Graphs, Rooted Trees, Trees and Sorting

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