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Anteaterking posted...

My favorite part about combinatorics/graph theory is that there are a lot of proofs that boil down to random magic tricks. Obviously that can lead to its own frustration but in some ways it was more of a style than a specific discipline compared to e.g. my friends who did commutative algebra.

What was your research in?

I remember one graph theory proof in class used Cauchy-Schwarz out of seemingly nowhere. Although, I think graph theory has some of the neatest tricks/ideas. The discharge method is my favorite thing to tell people who have enough math experience to get the gist.

I do enumerative combinatorics.