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Math 552 - Enumerative combinatorics and Ordered Sets
| Time: | MWF 12:10-1:00 |
| Classroom: | Carver 118 |
| Instructor: | Dr. Alexander Burstein |
| Office: | Carver 456 |
| Office Hours: |
MWF 1:00-2:00, or by appointment, or by
email I usually check my email several times a day, so you can usually expect an answer fairly soon, sometimes even if it's late night or weekend. |
| Email: | burstein@math.iastate.edu |
| Phone: | (29)4-7294 |
| Textbook: | A Course In Combinatorics, 2nd edition, by J.H. van Lint and R.M. Wilson |
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Homework
Homework 1 - Due Friday, February 11, in class.
Homework 2 - Due Monday, February 28, in class.
Homework 3 - Due Friday, April 8, in class.
Homework 4 - Due Monday, May 2, in Carver 456.
Material to be covered:- We will attempt to cover material in Chapters 10, 13, 14, 15, 24, 25, 37, and Appendix 2, and possibly other material of my choosing.
- Grading:
- There will be no tests or exams. Homework is the core of this course. The final grade will be based on biweekly homework assignments.
- Some Related Textbooks:
- Available Online:
- H.S. Wilf, "generatingfunctionology".
- P. Flajolet and R. Sedgewick, "Analytic Combinatorics".
- D. Foata and G.-N. Han, "q-Series in Combinatorics; Permutation Statistics" (lecture notes).
- M. Lothaire, "Combinatorics on Words" (chapter 1 and bibliography),"Algebraic Combinatorics on Words" and "Applied Combinatorics on Words".
- Other:
- R.P. Stanley, "Enumerative Combinatorics", vols. 1, 2, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997, 1999.
- M. Aigner, "Combinatorial Theory", Springer Verlag, New York, 1979.
- George Andrews, "The Theory of Partitions", Cambridge University Press, New York, 1998.
- William Fulton, "Young Tableaux: With Applications to Representation Theory and Geometry", Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997. Part 1 of this book is devoted to combinatorics of Young tableaux.
- Miklós Bóna, "Combinatorics of Permutations", Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, 2004.