18.226 | Fall 2022 | Graduate

Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics

Extremal Set Theory: Sperner's Theorem

Application of the probabilistic method in combinatorics to extremal set theory. How many subsets of an n-element set can you have without having one subset containing another?

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