Instructor: Lewis Bowen
The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:10-12:25 in ENPH 216.
Tentative office hours: Tues 12:40-2 and Wed 1-2pm and Wed 4-5pm in Milner 119 (or by appointment).

• Syllabus
• Lecture, Exam and Homework Schedule
• Extra Credit assignment #1: the tattooed islander problem. Due 9/20.
• Extra Credit assignment #2: the Twelvefold way. (Due 10/11) Solutions.
  
• Extra Credit assignment #3: Catalan numbers. Due 10/18. Solutions.
  
• Extra Credit assignment #4: Counting labeled graph. Due 11/22. Solutions.
  
• Practice for Exam 1.
• Practice for Exam 2.  Some solutions.
• Practice for the final.   Some solutions.

Announcements

• I'll be out of town Sept 12-16. Class will be taught by another professor.
• It can be helpful to read another book to get a different perspective. Here's a short list of books comparable to our book: Richard Brualdi's Introductory Combinatorics, Kenneth Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, A Course in Combinatorics by J. H. van Lint and R. M. Wilson, Combinatorics and Graph Theory by John Harris, Jeffry L. Hirst and Michael Mossinghoff.
  

Links

• Miklos Bona's website for the textbook. This is good place to check for errata, linked at the bottom of the page.
• Primers on mathematical proofs: here, here and here.
• Generatingfunctionology. This is a free online textbook.