Richard P. Stanley

Professor of Applied Mathematics

Next semester (Fall 2010) I am teaching 18.314 (Combinatorial Analysis) and coteaching 18.S34 with Abhinav Kumar.

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 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 a link to a preliminary version of the second edition of volume 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 18 August 2009)

Topics in Algebraic Combinatorics: lecture notes for an undergraduate course (145 page pdf file). Not yet in final form. Version of 24 April 2010.

Photos

Miscellaneous