Overview
MATH5505 is an honours and postgraduate coursework mathematics course. See the聽course overview聽below.
Units of credit:听6
Prerequisites:聽24 units of level III mathematics or a degree in a numerate discipline or permission of the Lecturer-in-Charge.
Cycle of offering: T3
Graduate attributes:聽The course will enhance your research, inquiry and analytical thinking abilities.
More information:聽The Course outline will be made available closer to the start of term - please visit this website:聽聽www.unsw.edu.au/course-outlines
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Important additional information as of 2023
UNSW Plagiarism Policy
The University requires all students to be aware of its聽.
For courses convened by the聽School of Mathematics and Statistics no assistance using generative AI software is allowed unless specifically referred to in the individual assessment tasks.
If its use is detected in the no assistance case, it will be regarded as serious academic misconduct and subject to the standard penalties, which may include 00FL, suspension and exclusion.
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Course overview
This course will present beautiful topics from classical combinatorics including but not limited to the Pigeonhole Principle, Ramsey Theory, Matching Theory, Latin Squares, graph algorithms, the Inclusion-Exclusion Principle,聽Polya counting, generating functions, and Extremal Set Theory.