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Notes on Counting

Posted on 15/05/2017 by

My book Notes on Counting: An Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics should be published by Cambridge University Press in June this year, as part of the Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series. If you have read some of my lecture notes on … Continue reading →

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Fibonacci numbers, 1

Posted on 18/06/2012 by

The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter, said Bob Dylan. Mathematics is littered with things named after people who didn’t invent them. According to Alan Sokal, the Ising model was … Continue reading →

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