A conversational introduction to combinatorics for upper undergraduates, emphasizing problem solving and active student participation.
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Shahriar Shahriari is Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. He has over fifty publications in mathematics including two books: Approximately Calculus (AMS 2006) and Algebra in Action: A Course in Groups, Rings, and Fields (AMS 2017). His book Approximately Calculus was chosen as an American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2007, and he won the Mathematical Association of America's Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for expository writing in 1998. Shahriari was awarded the Mathematical Association of America's Haimo National Teaching award in 2015, the Southern California-Nevada Section of the Mathematics Association of America's Teaching Award in 2014, and Pomona College's collegewide student-voted Wig Distinguished Teacher award five different times.
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