The document discusses recurrence relations and methods for solving them. It defines a recurrence relation as an equation that expresses the terms of a sequence in terms of previous terms. It provides examples of homogeneous and non-homogeneous recurrence relations. For homogeneous relations, it describes guessing a solution of the form T(n)=x^n and finding the characteristic equation. For non-homogeneous relations, it explains adding the non-recursive term to the characteristic equation. It then works through examples of solving both homogeneous and non-homogeneous recurrence relations.