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Discrete Mathematics Demystified

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Contents ix<br />

CHAPTER 7 Matrices 135<br />

7.1 What Is a Matrix? 135<br />

7.2 Fundamental Operations on Matrices 136<br />

7.3 Gaussian Elimination 139<br />

7.4 The Inverse of a Matrix 145<br />

7.5 Markov Chains 153<br />

7.6 Linear Programming 156<br />

Exercises 161<br />

CHAPTER 8 Graph Theory 163<br />

8.1 Introduction 163<br />

8.2 Fundamental Ideas of Graph Theory 165<br />

8.3 Application to the Königsberg<br />

Bridge Problem 169<br />

8.4 Coloring Problems 172<br />

8.5 The Traveling Salesman Problem 178<br />

Exercises 181<br />

CHAPTER 9 Number Theory 183<br />

9.1 Divisibility 183<br />

9.2 Primes 185<br />

9.3 Modular Arithmetic 186<br />

9.4 The Concept of a Group 187<br />

9.5 Some Theorems of Fermat 196<br />

Exercises 197<br />

CHAPTER 10 Cryptography 199<br />

10.1 Background on Alan Turing 199<br />

10.2 The Turing Machine 200<br />

10.3 More on the Life of Alan Turing 202<br />

10.4 What Is Cryptography? 203<br />

10.5 Encryption by Way of Affine Transformations 209<br />

10.6 Digraph Transformations 216

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