2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/68469These are (not updated) notes from the lectures I gave at the NATO ASI ``Symmetric Functions 2001'' at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge (June 25 -- July 6, 2001). Their goal is an informal introduction to asymptotic combinatorics related to partitions.35 pages, 11 figuresCombinatoricsMathematical Physicstext