The Course

Textbook

A Walk Through Combinatorics, by Miklos Bona.

Grades

Honor Code

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(Very) Tentative Schedule

Week 1 (August 23 - August 27). Introduction and review

Week 2 (August 30 - September 3). Basic counting

Week 3 (September 6 - September 10). Inclusion/exclusion

Week 4 (September 13 - September 17). Recursions and generating functions

Week 5 (September 20 - September 24). Recursions and generating functions

Week 6 (September 27 - October 1). Recursions and generating functions and Midterm 1

Week 7 (October 4 - October 8). Graph Theory

Week 8 (October 11 - October 15). Graph Theory

Week 9 (October 18 - October 22). Graph Theory

Week 10 (October 25 - October 29). Graph Theory

Week 11 (November 1 - November 5). Graph Theory

Week 12 (November 8 - November 12). Graph Theory

Week 13 (November 15 - November 19). Graph Theory and Midterm 2

Week -- (November 22 - November 26). Break

Week 14 (November 29 - December 3). Topics

Week 15 (December 6 - December 10). Topics

Finals Week (December 11 - December 16).