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

>> No.11782565
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11782565

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.

>> No.11784286

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

>> No.11784307

>>11782417
is this polya szego

>> No.11785871

>>11782417
book name please?

>> No.11785960

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

>> No.11785968

>>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/

>> No.11785972

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

>> No.11786268

>>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

>> No.11786522

>>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.

>> No.11788473

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).

>> No.11788539

>>11782565
>>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.