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


Q1. THE FIRST ATTENDANCE QUESTION WAS:
Who was Gian Carlo Rota?

A1. MY ANSWER TO THE FIRST ATTENDANCE QUESTION IS:

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. 

Source: Wikipedia


Q2. THE  SECOND ATTENDANCE QUESTION WAS:

Use the internet to find the quote of Rota about how useful PIE is.

A2. MY ANSWER TO THE  SECOND ATTENDANCE QUESTION IS:

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.

Source: https://www.mathematicalwhetstones.com/uploads/5/4/9/9/54991295/31_combinatorics_inclusion-exclusionsample_1.pdf



Q3. THE  THIRD ATTENDANCE QUESTION WAS: 

 What does Recontres mean in French? Who made the problem up?

A3. MY ANSWER TO THE  THIRD ATTENDANCE QUESTION IS:

Recontre: matching, meeting, reunion, encounter

This problem was formulated by Pierre Raymond de Montmort.


Q4. THE  FOURTH ATTENDANCE QUESTION WAS: 

What is the OEIS a number of seq(Dn(i),i=0..10)?

A4. MY ANSWER TO THE  THIRD ATTENDANCE QUESTION IS:

A000166