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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Discrete Mathematics by Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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About the Course

Discrete mathematics forms the mathematical foundation of computer and information science. It is also a fascinating subject in itself. Learners will become familiar with a broad range of mathematical objects like sets, functions, relations, graphs, that are omnipresent in computer science. Perhaps more importantly, they will reach a certain level of mathematical maturity - being able to understand formal statements and their proofs; coming up with rigorous proofs themselves; and coming up with interesting results. This course attempts to be rigorous without being overly formal. This means, for every concept we introduce we will show at least one interesting and non-trivial result and give a full proof. However, we will do so without too much formal notation, employing examples and figures whenever possible. The main topics of this course are (1) sets, functions, relations, (2) enumerative combinatorics, (3) graph theory, (4) network flow and matchings. It does not cover modular arithmetic, algebra, and logic, since these topics have a slightly different flavor and because there are already several courses on Coursera specifically on these topics....

Top reviews

IA

Jan 5, 2021

This course requires some background knowledge of mathematics, and the exercises require some hard work. It's interesting, engaging, and has a lot of knowledge on offer!

NP

Oct 22, 2017

Fantastic course. Fascinating material, presented at a reasonably fast pace, and some really challenging assignments.

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51 - 62 of 62 Reviews for Discrete Mathematics

By Sunil B H

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May 19, 2020

Quiz problems are difficult to solve. Assignments are very lengthy

By Xiuge C

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Feb 26, 2020

The course contents are very interesting, but there are lots of improvements could be done on the course structure and how they are delivered. Also it would be better if there are actually some "official" TAs take care of the forum.

By Harish R

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Aug 18, 2017

Good Set of problem sets, though more vdieo lectures are required.

By Vant v

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Mar 13, 2020

it is a little bit hard

By Adam S

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Jul 12, 2019

Does not provide much information about understanding key concepts, videos and material do not prepare students well for quizzes. There needs to be more learning material in each section to properly prepare students.

By Anabel D

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Aug 7, 2017

Good videos, but there is a huge gap between them and the assignmnets. The quizzes have bugs.

By Vadim K

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Oct 7, 2021

Teacher runs very quickly over the course w/o explaining the basics.

By genie h

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Sep 25, 2022

The professor is not very good at explaining the topics in his video! I have no idea how to do my quiz assignments without looking it up on Google and/or asking a coworker for help. I am a high school math teacher and my other colleagues who have taken Math in college have no idea how to apply what he talks about in the video to some of the quiz questions.

By Micah H N

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Dec 19, 2022

Doesn't explain things very well. Why pay for a course where you have to practically learn the material yourself?? I'm going to MIT OCW instead

By Chenyu W

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Jan 9, 2024

Leaning nothing, worst course ever

By V.UMA M V T C

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Sep 20, 2022

WORST COURSE

By NEHA A

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May 11, 2023

Very bad