MATH 460(a) Combinatorics — A
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Last listed
- 1974–75
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1968–69 to 1974–75; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Enumerative Mathematics Combinatorial identities, generating functions, counting of labelled and unlabelled objects, theorems © of Polya, Redfield-Fead, and de Bruijn. Recommended as a useful preliminary for M785 “Planar graphs”. 2 hours lectures, one term Prerequisite: A knowledge of elementary group theory (M329)
As printed in the 1974–75 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1974–75, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1974–75 1 calendar
Enumerative Mathematics Combinatorial identities, generating functions, counting of labelled and unlabelled objects, theorems © of Polya, Redfield-Fead, and de Bruijn. Recommended as a useful preliminary for M785 “Planar graphs”. 2 hours lectures, one term Prerequisite: A knowledge of elementary group theory (M329)
1973–74 1 calendar
The existence and construction of error correcting codes, projective geometrics, orthogonal Latin squares, balanced incomplete block designs and other combinatorial configurations. Recommended for M 780, Combinatorial Analysis. 2 hours lectures, one term. Prerequisites: Theory of finite groups, rings and fields (M 329).
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1971–72 to 1972–73 2 calendars
The existence and construction of projective geometries, orthogonal Latin squares, room designs, balanced incomplete block designs and other combinatorial configurations. Results on the football pool problem. 2 hours lectures.
1968–69 to 1970–71 3 calendars
Enumerative mathematics. Combinatorial properties of various mathematical structures (e.g. graphs, geometries, etc.), 2 hours lectures.