*Note: This course discription is only applicable to the Computer Science Post-Baccalaureate program. Additionally, students must always refer to course syllabus for the most up to date information.

There's been a lot of talk lately about teaching algebra in schools. Some people believe that algebra should be scrapped from the curriculum, or at least severely curtailed. Books get written.

MUCH use is made in combinatorial problems of generating functions in the form of polynomials and infinite power series, these being obtained by the manipulation of other algebraic expressions. In ...