Introductory Combinatorics
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Introductory Combinatorics emphasizes combinatorial ideas, including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Polya counting, binomial coefficients, inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions and recurrence relations, and combinatortial structures (matchings, designs, graphs). Written to be entertaining and readable, this book's lively style reflects the author's joy for teaching the subject. It presents an excellent treatment of Polya's Counting Theorem that doesn't assume the student is familiar with group theory. It also includes problems that offer good practice of the principles it presents. The third edition of Introductory Combinatorics has been updated to include new material on partially ordered sets, Dilworth's Theorem, partitions of integers and generating functions. In addition, the chapters on graph theory have been completely revised. A valuable book for any reader interested in learning more about combinatorics.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0720486106
ISBN13:9780720486100
Release Date:January 1977
Publisher:Prentice Hall
Length:374 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The book I ordered came in an extremely timely manner, and was in the condition specified when I bought it.
nice accessable text
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Most (but not all) of the copious errors in earlier editions have been fixed. (Brualdi maintains an errata list on his website.) I like this book a lot, it has a nice, relaxed style of exposition and the choice of topics is good for an introductory course.
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