Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 18.314 (Fall 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Combinatorial Analysis 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Mathematics 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Alexander Postnikov 
• Course Introduction:
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  18.314 Combinatorial Analysis
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a readings section, a complete set of assignments, and exams.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course analyzes combinatorial problems and methods for their solution. Prior experience with abstraction and proofs is helpful. Topics include: Enumeration, generating functions, recurrence relations, construction of bijections, introduction to graph theory, network algorithms and, extremal combinatorics.