#ATTENDANCE QUIZ FOR LECTURE 6 of Dr. Z.'s Math454(02) Rutgers University


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THE NUMBER OF ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS WERE: 4


PLEASE LIST ALL THE QUESTIONS FOLLOWED, AFTER EACH BY THE ANSWER


1. Q: Who was Gian-Carlo Rota?
A: He was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher who specialized in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology.


2. Q: Use the internet to find the quote of Rota about how useful pie exists. 
A: “One of the most useful principles of enumeration in discrete probability and combinatorial theory is the celebrated principle of inclusion-exclusion. When skillfully applied, this principle has yielded the solution of many a combinatorial problem . . . ” .


3. Q: What does recontres mean in French? Who made the problem up?
A: It means encounter. Pierre Raymond de Montmort 


4. What is the OEIS A number of this sequence: 0, 1, 2, 9, 44, 265, 1854, 14833, 133496, 1334961
A: A000166