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Prerequisites
Linear Algebra (18.700) or Algebra I (18.701)
Recommended Textbooks
van Lint, J. H., and R. M. Wilson. A Course in Combinatorics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0521422604. (Reprinted 1994, 1996.)
Stanley, R. P., Sergey Fomin, B. Bollobas, W. Fulton, A. Katok, F. Kirwan, P. Sarnak, and B. Simon. Course notes on Topics in Algebraic Combinatorics.
———. Enumerative Combinatorics. Vol. 1 and 2. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0521789877.
Topics
Catalan Numbers, Triangulations, Catalan Paths, Noncrossing Set Partitions
Symmetric Group, Statistics on Permutations, Inversions and Major Index
Partially Ordered Sets and Lattices, Sperner's and Dilworth's Theorems
Young's Lattice, Tableaux, and Schensted's Correspondence
q-Binomial Coefficients, Gaussian Coefficients, and Young Diagrams
Partitions, Euler's Pentagonal Theorem, Jacobi Triple Product
Noncrossing Paths, Lindstrom Lemma (Gessel-Viennot Method)
Matrix-Tree Theorem, Electrical Networks, Walks in Graphs
Lattice Paths and Continued Fractions
Transportation and Birkhoff Polytopes, Cyclic Polytopes, Permutohedra
Matching Enumeration, Pfaffians, Ising Model, Domino Tilings
Grading
Based on the 4 assignments.