Welcome to Math 636, Combinatorics, this Fall 2015!

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 27
• First Exam: Tuesday, October 13
• Project Topic Due: Thursday, October 22
• Project Outline Due: Thursday, November 5
• Second Exam: Thursday, December 3
• Poster Work Day: Tuesday, December 8
• Last Day of Class and Poster Session: Thursday, December 10, 3:10–5pm in Kiely Tower 508
• Podcast Recordings: Week of December 14–18

Office Hours:

I am happy to help you with your homework and other class-related questions during my office hours. I have official office hours as posted on my schedule. In addition, you are welcome to make an appointment or stop by my office in Kiely Tower Room 606 at any time. (You can call my office phone 718-997-5964 to see if I'm there.)

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!)