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

# Please Edit this .txt page with Answers

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#Right after finishing watching the lecture but no later than Sept. 24, 2020, 8:00pm


THE NUMBER OF ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS WERE:4

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

Q. Who was Gian-Carlo Rota?
A. Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology.

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 to many a combinatorial problem.



Q. What does recontres mean in french? Who made the problem up?
A. It means encounter. 
John Riordan came up with the problme. 


Q. What is the OEIS A number of this sequence?
A. A166