Discrete

Mathematics
Modeling Our World
What is it
anyway?

Graph Theory

Euler Paths and Circuits

In order to minimize
cost to the city, how
should weekly garbage
collection routes be
designed for Detroits
350,000 households?

Graph Theory

Traveling Salesman Problem

Sears, Roebuck and
Company manages a fleet
of over 1000 delivery
vehicles to bring products
they sell to customers
locations.
How should Sears
determine an efficient
delivery plan for each day?

SEAR
S

SEARS

Matrices

Computer Representation of
Graphs
How can problems
like the Detroit
garbage collection
or Sears delivery
service be
modeled in order
to utilize
technology for
the solution?

Matrices

Solving Systems of Equations

Problemswesolvenowadayshavethousandsofequations,
sometimesamillionvariables.ProfessorGeorgeDantzig,StanfordUniversity

How do telecommunications
companies determine how
to route millions of longdistance calls using the
existing resources of longdistance land lines,
repeater amplifiers, and
satellite terminals?

Matrices

Geometric Transformations
Have you ever wondered how your favorite
cartoon characters become animated?

Counting & Arranging

How secure are your
passwords?
If your password
consists of 3 letters and
3 numerals, how likely is
it that someone could
successfully guess the
configuration?

UR4T82

Coding Information
Identification Numbers

What mathematics
is involved in the
design of UPC
codes?

Coding Information
Error-Detecting Codes

Did you know that

many identification
codes contain check
digits to help catch
errors?

VIN2FTHF26H4RCA06058

Social Choice
SydneyWins!
2000SummerOlympics
gotoAustralia

Voting

NewsClip
KansasCityStar
September24,1993

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Manchester,England11 13
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Social Choice

Apportionment Algorithms
U.S. Constitution: Seats in

the House of Representatives

shall be apportioned among the
several states within this union
according to their respective
Numbers

1792, First Presidential

Veto: George Washington
vetoes the apportionment
bill

1991LEGALCHALLENGES

Whats it all about?

Discrete Mathematics
Nature of Problems

Existence of Solutions
Number of Solutions
Algorithms for Generating Solutions
Optimization

Mathematics Curriculum Framework

Probability and Discrete Mathematics

Contemporary uses of mathematics demand
that students learn to deal with uncertainty, to
make informed decisions based on evidence
and expectations, to exercise critical judgment
about conclusions drawn from data, and to
apply mathematical models to real-world
phenomena. The technological world in which
we live also depends upon information and
communication of information and upon
applications of systems with separate (discrete)
entities. Topics of discrete mathematics such as
permutation problems,

counting and
matrix