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About the Course

Counting is one of the basic mathematically related tasks we encounter on a day to day basis. The main question here is the following. If we need to count something, can we do anything better than just counting all objects one by one? Do we need to create a list of all phone numbers to ensure that there are enough phone numbers for everyone? Is there a way to tell that our algorithm will run in a reasonable time before implementing and actually running it? All these questions are addressed by a mathematical field called Combinatorics. In this online course we discuss most standard combinatorial settings that can help to answer questions of this type. We will especially concentrate on developing the ability to distinguish these settings in real life and algorithmic problems. This will help the learner to actually implement new knowledge. Apart from that we will discuss recursive technique for counting that is important for algorithmic implementations. One of the main ‘consumers’ of Combinatorics is Probability Theory. This area is connected with numerous sides of life, on one hand being an important concept in everyday life and on the other hand being an indispensable tool in such modern and important fields as Statistics and Machine Learning. In this course we will concentrate on providing the working knowledge of basics of probability and a good intuition in this area. The practice shows that such an intuition is not easy to develop. In the end of the course we will create a program that successfully plays a tricky and very counterintuitive dice game. As prerequisites we assume only basic math (e.g., we expect you to know what is a square or how to add fractions), basic programming in python (functions, loops, recursion), common sense and curiosity. Our intended audience are all people that work or plan to work in IT, starting from motivated high school students....

Top reviews

JC

Sep 8, 2020

It's a perfect introduction to combinatorics and probability, short, fun, and easy to understand. I would like to see more puzzles, those are extremely fun and interesting

FF

Jul 31, 2020

Great course. The final Project unclear had instructions on how to provide input. I spent a lot of time trying to troubleshoot it even though I already have a correct solution

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By Ashish S

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Jul 13, 2018

Content of this course is excellent. Basic Python programming skill is required for this course.

By Mariam M

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Oct 20, 2020

Very well paced, great explanations and the difficulty level is challenging yet not impossible.

By Manikant R

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Jun 11, 2020

This one was good but I still liked 1st-course exercises and puzzles. This one was quite boring

By Abhishek S

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Sep 26, 2021

Helped cement the understanding of combinatorics & develop problem solving capabilities.

By 叶罗鑫

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Feb 19, 2021

the course is splendid,the programming task plays an important role in my study process.

By Kuldeep K

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Apr 26, 2020

A must-do basic level course for combinatorics and probability for beginners

By Dmytro N

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Nov 1, 2017

I like the course very much! Thanks a lot guys, keep creating new courses!

By Wenzheng Z

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Jun 17, 2020

Very helpful with my combinatorics and probability!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Purva G

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Aug 31, 2020

A very well structured and beautiful course made my concepts very strong

By Juliano P

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Jan 2, 2021

Very nice course on the topic, lots of helpful exercises and practice!

By Harsh A

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Jul 9, 2021

Great course with good explaination and lots of practice problems.

By Yubo C

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Jan 24, 2020

Good course and help me a lot with a certain degree of difficulty

By Abhilash J

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Oct 5, 2020

Great experience. Used a lot of thinking skills in this course.

By ankith u

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Aug 29, 2020

was very useful, gave new insight towards probability theory

By Xiaoyuan C

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Jan 11, 2018

Excellent course! Thanks for the effort of the course team!

By Vamsee M K

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Dec 2, 2017

A very nice introduction to probability and combinatorics.

By Neelam U

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Oct 7, 2020

I really liked the content and the design of the course.

By Javier O

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Dec 15, 2017

Excellent and complete course. I completely recommend it

By Jayanth C

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Feb 14, 2021

Nice explanations and a great introduction to Python!

By Gary M

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Sep 20, 2020

Extremely enjoyable course. I gained valuable insight

By Constantin C

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Apr 17, 2021

Very good. I enjoyed doing this course. Thank you!

By Umesh S

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Nov 16, 2020

nice built up and different ways to explain things

By Nick S

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Jun 12, 2020

Python knowledge is a must for the final projects!

By Ziqi Y

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Dec 31, 2018

Great! Challenging final project but worth trying!

By Miguel A D A

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Nov 25, 2018

Super interesting the topic about combinatorics