#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

QUESTION ONE: Who was Gian-Carlo Rota?

ANSWER: A mathematician at MIT who worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and more. He also almost gave Dr. Z a professorship at MIT, but unfortunately died before he could do so at the early age of 66.

QUESTION TWO: Use the internet to find the quote of Rota about useful PIE exists

ANSWER: Gian-Carlo Rota, the Italian born American mathematician and philosopher once said of the inclusion/exclusion principle that it is one of the most useful principles of enumeration in discrete probability and combinatorial theory.

QUESTION THREE: What does rencontres mean in French? Who made the problem up?

ANSWER: According to Google Translate, it means 'meet'. According to Wikipedia, Pierre Remond de Montmort made it up in 1708.

QUESRTION FOUR: What is the A number for the sequence: 0, 1, 2, 9, 44, 265, 1854, 14833, 133496, 1334961

A000166