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>combinatorics is easy

Anonymous Wed 10 Jun 15:57:42 2020 No.11782417 View Reply Original Report

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can anyone here tell me the best resources for learning combinatorics?

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Anonymous Wed 10 Jun 2020 16:36:18 No.11782565 Report

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combinatorics is something you can do. Not something you can learn. It is easily the most g-loaded area of mathematics, hence your ability to do it has less to do with what you know and more to do with how innately talented you are. This is why just about no one says it is easy and it is often rated as the most difficult mathematical subject by mathematicians in polls.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:30:11 No.11784286 Report

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>>11782565
wrong, just all the people who like combinatorics are autistic as fuck and not good at teaching concepts to new students

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:36:08 No.11784307 Report

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>>11782417
is this polya szego

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:41:45 No.11785871 Report

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>>11782417
book name please?

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 14:18:38 No.11785960 Report

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>>11782417
just enumerate them all and go through them one by one

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 14:20:22 No.11785968 Report

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>>11782417
Henry Gould was a professor at west virginia university who was very interested in combinatorics and compiled a large body of identities and theorems. They are all downloadable as PDFs from this page:
https://math.wvu.edu/~hgould/

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 14:22:09 No.11785972 Report

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is solving nested Big-Pis like solving double integrals?. Can you ignore the first term because its not being product'd?

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 16:09:53 No.11786268 Report

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>>11782417
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/15201/good-book-on-combinatorics
As I’m sure you know, lovasz has amazing practice problems. Concrete math isn’t all combinatorics but it has a lot of good problems

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 17:27:48 No.11786522 Report

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>>11785871
Going off of the typeface and assuming that this book is being currently printed, it is safe to say that it is probably a title being published by Dover.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 05:10:39 No.11788473 Report

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y'all need some generator functions in ur life. Especially exponential generators and stuff like classes n' sheeit make solving especially recursive problems a breeezey (wheezey).

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 05:26:57 No.11788539 Report

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>>11784286
Doing combinatorics is more like like reading a book or playing the piano than actual math. You can't just let all the deltas and epsilons and equals signs do all the work, it's not something which can be brute forced with pure logic. Most mathematicians are spergs who only run on pure logic, so you can see where the problem lies.

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