7-12 Workshop - George Polyanomials Rob Hochberg
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Here's a brief description:
How many ways are there to put the numbers 1 to 6 on a die, where
two ways are considered the same if one is merely a rotated
version of the other? How many ways are there to make a 6-bead
necklace if there are 3 different colors of beads available, again,
up to rotation? How about up to rotations and reflections? To
answer these and other questions, we will look at Burnside's Lemma
and a counting technique first used by George Polya (to count
chemical isomers!). This workshop will be an extension of
material touched upon at the end of the 1996 summer veterans
program at Rutgers.
