Combinatorics
Graduate · Math
Syllabus focus
Theoretical / proof-based
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Topics typically covered
Theoretical / proof-based
Enumerative combinatorics
- Generating functions: ordinary and exponential
- Recurrence relations and transfer matrices
- Inclusion–exclusion and Möbius inversion on posets
- Polya enumeration and cycle index
- Asymptotic enumeration (introduction)
Graph theory and extremal problems
- Turán's theorem and extremal graph theory
- Ramsey theory: finite and infinite (introduction)
- Matchings, factors, and Tutte's theorem
- Planarity: Kuratowski's and Wagner's theorems (statements)
- Spectral graph theory (introduction)
Algebraic and geometric combinatorics
- Combinatorial Nullstellensatz and polynomial method
- Matroids: definitions, bases, and duality
- Symmetric functions and Young tableaux (introduction)
- Incidence algebras and Möbius functions
- Lattice paths and binomial identities
Notes
Topics reflect common graduate combinatorics syllabi at US universities. Courses vary widely in emphasis among enumeration, graph theory, and algebraic combinatorics.