Topics in Algebraic Combinatorics
As taught in: Spring 2006
Young's lattice Y, the poset of all partitions of all nonnegative integers, ordered by containment of their Young diagrams. (Image by Prof. Richard Stanley.)
Instructors:
Prof. Richard Stanley
MIT Course Number:
18.318
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
Course Description
The course consists of a sampling of topics from algebraic combinatorics. The topics include the matrix-tree theorem and other applications of linear algebra, applications of commutative and exterior algebra to counting faces of simplicial complexes, and applications of algebra to tilings.
