Department of Mathematics
Spring 2003

MACM 202 - Introduction to Discrete & Continuous Models

Class Webpage

SFU Resources

  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:

  shuffling article (link)
  shuffling article (link)
  perfect shuffle (link)

History:

  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