Authors:Helene Barcelo, Gil Kalai,
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: jerusalem, combinatorics, contemporary, mathematics, conference, international, israel
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1995-01
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0821802941
ISBN-13: 9780821802946

This book contains twenty-two papers presented at the International Conference in Combinatorics, held in Jerusalem in May 1993. The papers describe some of the latest developments in algebraic combinatorics, enumeration, graph and hypergraph theory, combinatorial geometry, and geometry of polytopes and arrangements. The papers are accessible to specialists as well as nonspecialists.

Authors:J. H. van Lint, R. M. Wilson,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: combinatorics, course
Number of Pages: 620
Published: 2001-12-03
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0521006015
ISBN-13: 9780521006019

Combinatorics, a subject dealing with ways of arranging and distributing objects, involves ideas from geometry, algebra, and analysis. The breadth of the theory is matched by that of its applications, which include topics as diverse as codes, circuit design and algorithm complexity. It has thus become an essential tool in many scientific fields. In this second edition the authors have made the text as comprehensive as possible, dealing in a unified manner with such topics as graph theory, extremal problems, designs, colorings, and codes. The depth and breadth of the coverage make the book a un

Author: Alan Tucker
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: combinatorics, applied
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2006-11-29
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0471735078
ISBN-13: 9780471735076

Updated with new material, this Fifth Edition of the most widely used book in combinatorial problems explains how to reason and model combinatorically. It also stresses the systematic analysis of different possibilities, exploration of the logical structure of a problem, and ingenuity. Combinatorical reasoning underlies all analysis of computer systems. It plays a similar role in discrete operations research problems and in finite probability. This book seeks to develop proficiency in basic discrete math problem solving in the way that a calculus text develops proficiency in basic analysis pro

Author: Martin J. Erickson
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: combinatorics, introduction
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1996-09-13
List price: $152.00
ISBN-10: 0471154083
ISBN-13: 9780471154082

This gradual, systematic introduction to the main concepts of combinatorics is the ideal text for advanced undergraduate and early graduate courses in this subject. Each of the book’s three sections—Existence, Enumeration, and Construction—begins with a simply stated first principle, which is then developed step by step until it leads to one of the three major achievements of combinatorics: Van der Waerden’s theorem on arithmetic progressions, Pólya’s graph enumeration formula, and Leech’s 24-dimensional lattice. Along the way, Professor Martin J. Erickson int

Author: M. Lothaire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: words, combinatorics, algebraic
Number of Pages: 518
Published: 2002-04-15
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521812208
ISBN-13: 9780521812207

Combinatorics on words has arisen independently within several branches of mathematics, for instance, number theory, group theory and probability, and appears frequently in problems related to theoretical computer science. The first unified treatment of the area was given in Lothaire’s Combinatorics on Words. Since its publication, the area has developed and the authors now aim to present several more topics as well as giving deeper insights into subjects that were discussed in the previous volume. An introductory chapter provides the reader with all the necessary background material. Th

Author: Bela Bollobas
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: combinatorics, contemporary
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2002-07-02
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540427252
ISBN-13: 9783540427254

This volume is a collection of survey papers in combinatorics that have grown out of lectures given in the workshop on Probabilistic Combinatorics at the Paul Erdös Summer Research Center in Mathematics in Budapest. The papers, reflecting the many facets of modern-day combinatorics, will be appreciated by specialists and general mathematicians alike: assuming relatively little background, each paper gives a quick introduction to an active area, enabling the reader to learn about the fundamental results and appreciate some of the latest developments. An important feature of the articles, very

Author: C. Vasudev
Publisher: New Age Publications (Academic)
Keywords: combinatorics, problems, theory
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8122417051
ISBN-13: 9788122417050