Lecture 13

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

  1. Explain what a generating function is.
  2. Given a simple series, give its generating function.
  3. Given the generating function for a series, give the terms of the series.
  4. Prove simple properties using generating functions.

Reading assignment

  1. Sec 5.4, up to page 198 (Vandermonde's convolution), sec 7.1, from page 327 (the change problem).
  2. Page 331.

Exercises and review questions


Last modified: 13 Mar 2006