Welcome to Math 636, Combinatorics, this Fall 2019!

Course Information

• Course Syllabus
• Standards
• Read Letters from past students
• Course Calendar
• Homework Assignments, Lecture Notes, and Topics Covered
• Guidelines for the course project and poster presentation

Key Dates: (subject to change)

• First Day of Class: Wednesday, August 28
• First Assessment: Wednesday, September 11
• Project Topic Due: Monday, October 21
• Replacement Class Day: Friday, November 1
• Project Plan Due: Monday, November 4
• Last Day of Class and Poster Session: Wednesday, December 11, 3:15–4:45pm in Kiely Tower 508
• Podcast Recordings: December 12–18, scheduled individually.

Office Hours:

I am happy to help you with your homework and other class-related questions during my office hours. Office hours will be determined by group consensus during the first week of class and will be announced in class and 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 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!)