C&O 430/630
Algebraic Enumeration
Fall 2011
Time/Place: MWF 11:30-12:20, MC 4044
Instructor:
Prof. Kevin Purbhoo,
MC 4029.
Office hours:
Tues. & Wed. 10:00-11:00.
Calendar:
Mon. Sept 12:
First day of classes
Mon. Oct. 10:
Thanksgiving (no class)
Fri. Oct. 14:
Assignment 1 due
Fri. Oct. 28:
Midterm (in class)
Wed. Nov. 2:
Assignment 2 due
Mon. Nov. 21:
Assignment 3 due
Mon. Dec. 5:
Assignment 4 due;
Last day of classes
Mon. Dec. 19:
Final Exam (12:30-3:00, RCH 205)
Course materials:
Course outline
Course notes
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Final Exam Schedule
Additional References:
David M. Jackson & Ian P. Goulden,
"Combinatorial Enumeration",
John Wiley & Sons, 1983. (Republished by: Dover Publications, 2004.)
Richard P. Stanley,
"Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume 1",
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Richard P. Stanley,
"Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume 2",
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Herbert S. Wilf,
"Generatingfunctionology".
William Fulton,
"Young Tableaux with Applications to Representation Theory and Geometry",
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997.
Bruce Sagan,
"The Symmetric Group: Representations, Combinatorial Algorithms, and Symmetric Functions",
Graduate Texts in Mathematics 203, Springer Verlag, 2001.
"C&0 330 Course Notes" (on sale at Campus Copy, MC 2018).