TuTh -- 1:35 - 2:55: Skiles 257
Instructor: Josephine Yu
Prerequisites: Solid background in undergraduate linear algebra is assumed
The textbook will be "A Course in Enumeration" by Martin Aigner, available online for free through the GT library. Topics include
- generating functions
- recurrence relations
- sieve methods
- catalan numbers
- ymmetric functions
- enumerative aspects of geometric combinatorics such as hyperplane arrangements
- oriented matroids
- polytopes
- triangulations
- and the connections to (parametric) linear programming
