{"id":17,"date":"2013-02-19T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/2013\/02\/19\/applied_discrete_structures_-_update\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:22:14","slug":"applied_discrete_structures_-_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/2013\/02\/19\/applied_discrete_structures_-_update\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Discrete Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Discrete Structures by Al Doerr and Ken Levasseur, both from the UML Department of Mathematical Sciences, has reached two significant milestones:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The book is now listed as part of the American Math Institute&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimath.org\/textbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Textbook Initiative<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It has its first outside adoptions: classes at the University of the Puget Sound, Grinnell College, Casper College and Luzurne Community College are all using the book in the spring of 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><font color=\"#222222\" face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\">Resources, such as this dynamic demonstration of cyclic subgroups of the group of integers mod n are continuing to be developed. Move the sliders to see the different subgroups with varyingmoduli:<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#222222\" face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>var cdf = new cdfplugin();<br \/>\ncdf.embed(&#8216;http:\/\/faculty.uml.edu\/klevasseur\/ADS2\/demos\/cyclic_subgroups_mod_n.cdf&#8217;, 727, 873);<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\"><img alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>Applied Discrete Structures by <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.uml.edu\/klevasseur\/ads2\/\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">Alan Doerr &amp; Kenneth Levasseur<\/a> is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Discrete Structures by Al Doerr and Ken Levasseur, both from the UML Department of Mathematical Sciences, has reached two significant milestones: The book is now listed as part of the American Math Institute&#8217;sOpen Textbook Initiative. It has its first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/2013\/02\/19\/applied_discrete_structures_-_update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,16,14,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}