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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 18.S66 (Spring 2003) 
  • Course Title:
  • The Art of Counting 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Mathematics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Richard Stanley 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 18.S66 The Art of Counting



    Spring 2003




    Course Highlights


    This undergraduate subject on "The Art of Counting" features a comprehensive set of 233 problems for students to solve. The course is structured with one lecture session per week, and student presentations to report on their work in one problem session per week.


    Course Description


    The subject of enumerative combinatorics deals with counting the number of elements of a finite set. For instance, the number of ways to write a positive integer n as a sum of positive integers, taking order into account, is 2n-1. We will be concerned primarily with bijective proofs, i.e., showing that two sets have the same number of elements by exhibiting a bijection (one-to-one correspondence) between them. This is a subject which requires little mathematical background to reach the frontiers of current research. Students will therefore have the opportunity to do original research. It might be necessary to limit enrollment.
     

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