Math 4370 Combinatorics
Homework

Parts A (Reading questions) and B (Warmup exercises)

• Tuesday, January 17:
  • Sections 1.1, 1.2 (parts A and B due Thu. 19 Jan.)--UPDATE: part B due Tue., 24 Jan.
  • Section 1.3 (part A due Mon., 23 Jan.; part B due Tue., 24 Jan.)--UPDATE: part B due Thu., 26 Jan.
• Thursday, January 19:
  • Subsection 1.4.1 (part A due Wed., 25 Jan.; part B due Thu., 26 Jan.)
  • Rest of Section 1.4 (part A due Mon., 30 Jan.; part B due Tue., 31 Jan.)
• Thursday, January 26:
  • Section 1.5 (part A due Wed., 1 Feb.; part B due Thu., 2 Feb.)
  • Subsection 2.1.1 (part A due Mon., 6 Feb.; part B due Tue., 7 Feb.)
• Thursday, February 2:
  • Subsection 2.1.2 (part A due Wed., 8 Feb.; part B due Thu., 9 Feb.)
  • Subsection 2.2.1 (part A due Mon., 13 Feb.; part B due Tue., 14 Feb.)
• Thursday, February 9:
  • Subsection 2.2.2 (part A due Wed., 15 Feb.; part B due Thu., 16 Feb.)
  • Subsections 2.2.2, 2.2.3 (part A due Mon., 20 Feb.; part B due Tue., 21 Feb.)
• Thursday, February 16:
  • Subsections 2.3.1 (part A due Mon., 27 Feb.; part B due Tue., 28 Feb.)
• Thursday, February 23:
  • Subsection 2.3.2 (part A due Wed., 29 Feb.; part B due Thu., 1 Mar.)
  • Subsection 2.4.1 (part A due Mon., 5 Mar.; part B due Tue., 6 Mar.)
• Thursday, March 1:
  • Subsection 2.4.2 (part A due Wed., 7 Mar.; part B due Thu., 8 Mar.)
  • Subsection 2.4.3 (part A due Mon., 19 Mar.; part B due Tue., 20 Mar.)
• Thursday, March 8:
  • Section 2.5 (part A due Wed., 21 Mar.; part B due Thu., 22 Mar.)
  • Subsection 3.2.1, part 1 (part A due Mon., 26 Mar.; part B due Tue., 27 Mar.) [Note that we will return to Section 3.1 after this introduction. But you still may want to refer to Section 3.1 as you read this material.]
• Thursday, March 22:
  • Section 3.1 (part A due Wed., 28 Mar.; part B due Thu., 29 Mar.)
  • Subsection 3.2.1, part 2 (part A due Mon., 2 Apr.; part B due Tue., 3 Apr.)
• Tuesday, April 3:
  • Subsection 3.3.1, part 1 (part A due Wed., 4 Apr.; part B due Thu., 5 Apr.)
• Thursday, April 5:
  • Subsection 3.3.1, part 2 (part A due Mon., 9 Apr.; part B due Tue., 10 Apr.)
• Monday, April 16:
  • Intro to Ch. 5; Section 5.1 (part A due Wed., 18 Apr.; part B due Thu., 19 Apr.)
• Thursday, April 19:
  • Section 5.2, part 1 (part A due Mon., 23 Apr.; part B due Tue., 24 Apr.)
  • Section 5.2, part 2 (part A due Wed., 25 Mar.; part B due Thu., 26 Apr.)
• Thursday, April 26:
  • Section 5.3, part 1 (part A due Mon., 30 Apr.; part B due Tue., 1 May.)
  • Section 5.3, part 2 (part A due Wed., 2 May; part B due Thu., 3 May.)

Part C (Main exercises)

• problem 21: Replace "and nonzero" by "and possibly zero"
• problems 24 and 30: In each case, p_k(n) should be interpreted as the number of partitions of n with *exactly* k parts.