Richard P. Stanley

Professor of Applied Mathematics

This semester (Spring 2008) I am on sabbatical leave and am not teaching any courses. Next semester (Fall 2008) I am teaching 18.314 (Combinatorial Analysis) and 18.S34 (Mathematical Problem Solving, jointly with Professors Kedlaya and Rogers).

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.

Hyperplane arrangements: lecture notes for graduate students.

Bijective proof problems: a list of almost 300 problems, mostly on bijective proofs, with around 18 open problems (version of 4 August 2007)

Photos

Miscellaneous