The Course

Textbook

A Walk Through Combinatorics, by Miklos Bona.

Grades

Honor Code

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(Very) Tentative Schedule

Week 1 (August 27 - August 31). Introduction and review

Week 2 (September 3 - September 7). Basic counting

Week 3 (September 10 - September 14). Inclusion/exclusion

Week 4 (September 17 - September 21). Recursions and generating functions

Week 5 (September 24 - September 28). Recursions and generating functions

Week 6 (October 1 - October 5). Recursions and generating functions and Midterm 1

Week 7 (October 8 - October 12). Graph Theory

Week 8 (October 15 - October 19). Graph Theory

Week 9 (October 22 - October 26). Graph Theory

Week 10 (October 29 - November 2). Graph Theory

Week 11 (November 5 - November 9). Graph Theory

Week 12 (November 12 - November 16). Graph Theory and Midterm 2

Week -- (November 19 - November 23). Break

Week 13 (November 26 - November 30). Graph Theory

Week 14 (December 3 - December 7). Topics

Week 15 (December 10 - December 14). Topics

Finals Week (December 15 - December 20).