Math 447/547: Combinatorial Mathematics; Spring 2007.

Time and Location: MWF 2-2:50 PM in PSYCH 307.

Instructor:



Textbook: Required: Applied Combinatorics (5th edition), by Alan Tucker., published by John Wiley & Sons.
Reccomended, but certainly not required: (1) Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics Volumes I and II. (2) Brualdi, Introductory Combinatorics.

Course Syllabus.
Here's a pdf version, if you're in to that kind of thing.
The syllabus will include information about grading policies, exam schedules and policies, etc. You should definitely read it.
Here's an approximate schedule of what we'll be doing this semester. Emphasis on the "approximate".
Homework:
  • Homework will be posted here.


  • Project 1 problems will be posted here.


  • Second project problems.
  • There will be weekly homework assigned, both problems from the textbook (Tucker) and problems I'll give you myself, which will be posted here on this webpage. They will be due on Fridays in class. Late homeworks will be accepted for half credit.

  • Also, there will be two projects this semester, which will take the form of a series of problems that the class will present solutions to on Fridays, and a written report (possibly in teams) on each project. More details will be discussed in class.

  • Also, the homework will eventually be required to be done in TeX or LaTeX. For the first half of the semester, this will be optional, but highly reccomended. Here and here are a couple of good links. Here is a homework template in LaTeX form, and here is what it looks like after being compiled.


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