Arbtirary thoughts on nearly everything from a modernist poet, structural mathematician and functional programmer.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Combinatorics

Counting is fun. It's just really enjoyable to sit there and figure out the most "elegant" way to solve a problem. It's really, really amazing that there are so many ways to approach the same problem, and as long as they count the same thing, they're the same.

It also is finally starting to give me a solid grasp of isomorphism. Not that the idea of isomorphism is difficult, just that seeing isomorphisms sitting there in front of you is difficult.

I think graph theory will fully solidify that idea for me.

1 comment:

Anne said...

Everything is the same thing anyway.

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