Math 17
An Introduction to Mathematics Beyond Calculus
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Tentative syllabus
Here is a rough list of the topics that I plan to cover by week. A more detailed description will be given in the
Homework Assignments page as the course progresses.
- Week 1. Fibonacci numbers
- Week 2. Compositions, binomial coefficients, subsets
- Week 3. Lattice paths, multisets
- Week 4. Permutations, derangements, inclusion-exclusion
- Week 5. Involutions, cycles, Stirling numbers
- Week 6. More permutation statistics, alternating permutations, integer partitions
- Week 7. Partition bijections, Harmonic numbers and Stirling numbers
- Week 8. Parking functions, Catalan numbers
- Week 9. Student presentations
Last updated June 27, 2016 13:25:43 EDT