Department of Mathematics
Spring 2003
MACM 202 - Introduction to Discrete & Continuous Models
Class Webpage
SFU Resources
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-   lecture notes (reserve list)
-   webct & discussion group (webct.sfu.ca)
The Last Weeks in MACM202:
- 03 April
-   final exam info
-       saturday 12 april, 8:40am
-       location: AQ3153
-       open notes, text & lab reports
-       simple non-symbolic calculator
required
-       submit report portfolios: best to have copies of the graded reports
- 02 April
-   three towers (link)
-   empirical distribution function for a measure of randomness in the shuffling of a 52-card deck
- 01 April
-   this is the REAL lab
-   the real lab instructions (w13reallab.txt)
-   perfect shuffle script (w13shuffle.m)
-   prime theorems (scans)
- 01 April
-   STOP, this is NOT today's lab
-   read these for tomorrow's lecture
-   tomorrow's demo instructions (w13lab.txt)
-   random deck EDF (w13random.m)
-   function to make random GSR permutation matrices (shuffle.m), in matlab: shuffle(Ncards)
-   GSR shuffle info (link)
-   randomizing the deck article (link)
-   humour compliments of professor dubiel
- 31 March
-   card shuffling demo (w12shuff8.m), for small Ncards use full(Pn) to show the matrix
-   web analysis (link)
-   using maple's order(2,N-1) function,
the plot below shows the # of perfect shuffles needed to perfectly
restore a deck of N cards
- 24 March
-   card shuffling (link)
-   shuffling demo (link)
Web Resources & Interest:
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-   shuffling article (link)
-   shuffling article (link)
-   perfect shuffle (link)
History:
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-   week 01: complex contour integration
-   week 02: fourier image processing
-   week 03: game theory I
-   week 04: game theory II
-   week 05: queueing theory I
-   week 06: queueing theory II
-   week 07: maple models
-   week 08: midterm week
-   week 09: goodness-of-fit
-   week 10: theory of structures
-   week 11: modelling caribou