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Extremal Set Theory: Sperner's Theorem
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MIT 18.226 Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Fall 2024
Instructor: Yufei Zhao
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Application of the probabilistic method in combinatorics to extremal set theory. How many subsets of an n-element set can you have without having one subset containing another?
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