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post math memes

>>15224818
>I will try to post my attempt hopefully tomorrow or much later today.
Alright anon, I look forward to seeing it when you get the chance the post it.
>I tried first writing out a few small examples
Nice!
>I never did a problem like this before, but I did find it very fun.
I'm very glad you found it fun! That's of course the most important thing.
>Looking at the solutions posted, I definitely feel like I learned a lot.
That's great as well. You may not have been equipped to solve this one problem at this time but certainly in the future you'll be better prepared for others.
>I would love to work more with these sorts of combinatorial problems, if you know any good texts or resources I would greatly appreciate it. I imagine the book in the image is possibly a good starting point, lol.
As the other anon pointed out, the book in the image is not really a good place to start. Only has problems and they get hard.....fast.
BUT I'd like to point out that it has some nice problems of reasonable difficulty like the one I posted. They are few in number but they're very cool! I can't an overwhelming majority of the problems in it myself but I really want to in the future after I learn more combinatorics.
>>15224957
I personally take a look at problems from a lot of books provided they're not too difficult however recently I've really liked "A walk through combinatorics" by the same Miklós Bóna the other anon mentioned. Quite pog in my opinion but I'm definitely not qualified to give anyone advice.
>>15224964
>Enumerative and Analytic Combinatorics - Miklós Bóna
Could you elaborate anon? I'm curious.I know this book of his existed but I figured it was suited for more advanced students since it mentions analytic combinatorics in the title.
Regardless, check the image. You're the basedboy in it and I'm the chad. (just kidding of course, I don't know anything about the book you recommended to make any comments)