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Aspects of Combinatorics

Aspects of Combinatorics

Aspects of Combinatorics

A Wide-ranging Introduction
Victor Bryant, University of Sheffield
January 1993
Paperback
9780521429979
$88.99
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Paperback

    Building from basics and demonstrating the relationships among the various branches of combinatorics, Victor Bryant presents the results in a straightforward way. Numerous examples and exercises including hints and solutions are included throughout and serve to lead the reader to some of the deeper results of the subject, many of which are usually excluded from introductory texts.

    • Bryant's previous undergraduate textbooks have all been very successful
    • Well illustrated with many line diagrams
    • Contains a multitude of examples and exercises

    Reviews & endorsements

    "...makes excellent reading for undergraduates who have already taken an introductory discrete mathematics course which covered counting methods, number theory, graph theory, and proof writing at an elementary level...I highly recommmend Aspects of Combinatorics as a great source of problems and examples that could supplement many upper division mathematics classes." Arthur Benjamin, SIAM Newsletter

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    Product details

    January 1993
    Paperback
    9780521429979
    276 pages
    235 × 191 × 15 mm
    0.48kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The binomial coefficients
    • 2. How many trees?
    • 3. The marriage theorem
    • 4. Three basic principles
    • 5. Latin squares
    • 6. The first theorem of graph theory
    • 7. Edge-colourings
    • 8. Harems and tournaments
    • 9. Minimax theorems
    • 10. Recurrence
    • 11. Vertex-colourings
    • 12. Rook polynomials
    • 13. Planar graphs
    • 14. Map-colourings
    • 15. Designs and codes
    • 16. Ramsey theory
    • Hints to exercises
    • Answers to exercises
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
      Author
    • Victor Bryant , University of Sheffield