#richard stanley enumerative combinatorics

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silver dirge
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my school offers a combinatorics course using richard stanley's vol 1 book. I'll have finished analysis 1 and algebra 1 by the time its offered next semester (1-7 of rudin and dummit and foote, im doing pretty well in both of the classes). its only offered once every 2 years so this is my only chance to get exposure to combinatorics. But i also dont know if im at all ready for it. should i take the class

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i also have the physical richard stanley book, it was pretty cheap so I picked it up

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im still not sure though I havent had the time to work through it

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ill also be taking analysis and algebra 2

tall patrolBOT
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granite needle
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I think that combinatorics does not need many requisites. Stanley study it in an enumerated spirit with generating functions which generalize tricks you may already know. The only new stuff may be finitely-generated modules but they are only generalizations of vector spaces so I think you could follow the course. If you read the chapters before the course it should be a walk in the park.

silver dirge
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i am also worried about my gpa though

granite needle