Richard P. Stanley

Professor of Applied Mathematics

This semester (Spring 2009) I am teaching 18.318 (Topics in Combinatorics). The topic will be symmetric functions. The semester after that (Fall 2009) I am teaching 18.315 (Combinatorial Theory). Tentative topic: generating functions. The semester after that (Spring 2010) I am tentatively teaching 18.312 (Algebraic Combinatorics).

Richard P. Stanley
Department of Mathematics 2-375
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

phone: (617) 253-7930
fax: (617) 253-4358
e-mail: rstan (at math.mit.edu)

Curriculum vitae (abbreviated)

Recent papers

List of publications (and a bibliography prepared by Jim Pitman). Most of these papers are now available as pdf files, thanks to the efforts of Arthur L. B. Yang (杨立波) and his colleagues at the Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, and of Shirley Entzminger.

Transparencies from recent talks

Enumerative Combinatorics : Some information on a two-volume book I have written. Includes new material related to Catalan numbers and new exercises on symmetric functions. Also includes information on a second edition of volume 1, with a link to the new Chapter 1.

Hyperplane arrangements: lecture notes for graduate students.

Bijective proof problems: a list of almost 250 problems on bijective proofs, with around 27 open problems (version of 9 September 2008)

Topics in Algebraic Combinatorics: lecture notes for an undergraduate course (145 page pdf file). Not yet in final form.

Photos

Miscellaneous