The document discusses greedy methods, matroids, and applying greedy algorithms to matroids. It provides examples of greedy scheduling algorithms like shortest job first. It defines matroids as a pair (S, I) where S is a finite set and I is a family of independent subsets satisfying the exchange property. The document gives an example matroid and shows applying a greedy algorithm to iteratively build independent sets in the matroid by adding elements one by one.