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This course is a graduate-level introduction to the probabilistic methods, a fundamental and powerful technique in combinatorics and theoretical computer science. The essence of the approach is to show that some combinatorial object exists and prove that a certain random construction works with positive probability. …
This course is a graduate-level introduction to the probabilistic methods, a fundamental and powerful technique in combinatorics and theoretical computer science. The essence of the approach is to show that some combinatorial object exists and prove that a certain random construction works with positive probability. The course focuses on methodology as well as combinatorial applications.
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Photo of Paul Erdős, a renowned Hungarian mathematician and the founder of the probabilistic method. (Image courtesy of Kmhkmh. Source: Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY.)
