Combinatorics Training provided by University Indian Institute of Technology Madras
We start with the finite and infinite avatars ofthe Pigeonhole Principle, Basic counting tools and the twelvefold way followed bycompositionsand partitions ofintegers and Stirlingnumbers.We then look atInclusion exclusion and Mobius inversion followed by generatingfunctions.We thenlook atPolya'stheorem,graphs andconclude witha short introduction to species of structures.INTENDED AUDIENCE :UG studentsPRE-REQUISITES : Basic Mathematical Maturity expected from a Mathematics student at the level of 10+2. Familiarity with group theory will be addedadvantage (not necessary).INDUSTRY SUPPORT : TCS, Infosys, Microsoft Research, Any companies developing discrete mathematics related areas or algorithms.
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