3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Lower Division
The course covers topics in combinatorics and probability applied to real life situations such as the paradoxa of democracy, weighted voting, fair division, apportionment, traveling salesmen, the mathematics of networks, Fibonacci numbers, golden ratio, growth patterns in nature, mathematics of money, symmetry, fractals, censuses and surveys, random sampling, sample spaces, permutations and uniform probability spaces.
Learning Outcomes1The students will gain knowledge, overview, and understanding in several fundamental mathematical subdisciplines which fall into four basic categories: voting and apportionment; growth; management of networks; data analysis.
2Students will assimilate these mathematical ideas while applying them to practical everyday questions, and in turn gain an understanding how real-life programs give rise to development of mathematical theories.
Prerequisites
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