Math 188 - Algebraic Combinatorics (Spring 2021)
All times below are in Pacific timezone.
- Lecture times and location: pre-recorded, posted below
- Textbook: Bruce Sagan, Combinatorics: The Art of Counting, errata
- Instructor: Steven Sam email
- Instructor office hours: via Zoom, Mondays 10-11AM, Thursdays 12:30-1:30PM, Fridays 9:30-10:30AM
- TA: Keren Shao email
- Discussion section: via Zoom, Tuesdays 10AM-10:50AM
- TA office hours: via Zoom, 11AM-12PM Tuesdays
- Syllabus: link
- Discord server: link (we'll use this to discuss the class)
Homework
Homework is due by 11:59PM on the date listed via Gradescope
Solutions must be clearly presented. Incoherent or unclear solutions will lose points.
Schedule
We will go by weeks rather than individual lectures. I will break up videos based on logical stopping places rather than set time limits.
Each week corresponds to roughly 5-6 pages of the course notes (how much I cover in an in-person lecture) and 1.5-2 hours of lecture.
(I am adjusting for the fact that in-person lectures use time for questions and for reviewing the previous lecture.)
Unfortunately there are sometimes small mistakes in the videos. I list them in the video description.
I list also some sections of Sagan's book that are useful as supplemental reading.
I don't follow it that closely, so it won't cover the material in the same way as the notes, but it could offer a useful perspective.
- Week 1 (Mar 29)
- Week 2 (Apr 5)
- Week 3 (Apr 12)
- Week 4 (Apr 19)
- Week 5 (Apr 26)
- Week 6 (May 3)
- Notes: Sections 4.1-4.2, 5.1
- Sagan: 1.9, 4,3, 4.4
Extra reading for Lectures 15 and 16 can be found in Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics 1, Section 4.7
- Videos: Lecture 15, Lecture 16, Lecture 17
- Notes from lectures: Lecture 15, Lecture 16, Lecture 17
- Week 7 (May 10)
- Week 8 (May 17)
- Weeks 9+10 (May 24)