Welcome to Math 636, Combinatorics, this Fall 2014!

Course Information

• Course Syllabus
• Read Letters from past students
• Course Calendar
• Homework Assignments, Lecture Notes, and Topics Covered
• Guidelines for completing homework assignments
• Guidelines for the course project and poster presentation
• A link to Blackboard

Key Dates: (subject to change)

• First Day of Class: Thursday, August 28
• First Exam: Thursday, October 16
• Project Topic Due: Tuesday, October 28
• Project Outline Due: Thursday, November 13
• Second Exam: Thursday, December 4
• Poster Work Day: Tuesday, December 9
• Last Day of Class and Poster Session: Thursday, December 11

Combinatorics links:

• Answers the question: "What is aibohphobia?"
• A whole bunch of identities!
• The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Nice writeups of combinatorial/geometrical mathematics
• Who named the Catalan numbers?

Additional Sources:

• Books on reserve at the Queens College Library
• Lecture notes on Enumerative Combinatorics, by Anna de Mier
• Proofs that really count
• Concrete Mathematics
• generatingfunctionology
• Enumerative Combinatorics, volumes I and II (both very advanced!)