#ATTENDANCE QUIZ FOR LECTURE 6 of Dr. Z.'s Math454(02) Rutgers University # Please Edit this .txt page with Answers #Email ShaloshBEkhad@gmail.com #Subject: p6 #with an attachment called #p6FirstLast.txt #(e.g. p6DoronZeilberger.txt) #Right after finishing watching the lecture but no later than Sept. 24, 2020, 8:00pm #THE NUMBER OF ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS WERE: 4 questions #Attendance Quiz 1. #Who was Gian-Carlo Rota? #Answer: 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. #Attendance Quiz 2. #Use the internet to find the quote of Rota about how useful PIE exists #Answer: #"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." #By Gian-Carlo Rota #Attendance Quiz 3. #What does recontres mean in French? #Probleme Des Recontres #Who made the problem up? #answer: 'Recontre' means "reencounter" in english and 'Probleme Des Recontres' was first posed by Pierre Remond de Montmort in 1708, Similarly to that of Nicolas Bernoulli. #Attendance Quiz 4. #What is the OEIS A number of this sequence? #0,1,2,9,44,265,1054,14833,133496,1334961 #Answer: A166