Introduction to Enumerative and Analytic Combinatorics
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Introduction to Enumerative and Analytic Combinatorics

  1. 592 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Introduction to Enumerative and Analytic Combinatorics

About this book

This award-winning textbook targets the gap between introductory texts in discrete mathematics and advanced graduate texts in enumerative combinatorics. The author's goal is to make combinatorics more accessible to encourage student interest and to expand the number of students studying this rapidly expanding field.

The book first deals with basic counting principles, compositions and partitions, and generating functions. It then focuses on the structure of permutations, graph enumeration, and extremal combinatorics. Lastly, the text discusses supplemental topics, including error-correcting codes, properties of sequences, and magic squares.

Updates to the Third Edition include:

  • Quick Check exercises at the end of each section, which are typically easier than the regular exercises at the end of each chapter.
  • A new section discussing the Lagrange Inversion Formula and its applications, strengthening the analytic flavor of the book.
  • An extended section on multivariate generating functions.

Numerous exercises contain material not discussed in the text allowing instructors to extend the time they spend on a given topic. A chapter on analytic combinatorics and sections on advanced applications of generating functions, demonstrating powerful techniques that do not require the residue theorem or complex integration, and extending coverage of the given topics are highlights of the presentation.

The second edition was recognized as an Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by Choice Magazine, published by the American Library Association.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword to the first edition
  9. Preface to the third edition
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Frequently used notation
  12. I Methods
  13. 1 Basic methods
  14. 2 Applications of basic methods
  15. 3 Generating functions
  16. II Topics
  17. 4 Counting permutations
  18. 5 Counting graphs
  19. 6 Extremal combinatorics
  20. III An Advanced Method
  21. 7 Analytic combinatorics
  22. IV Special Topics
  23. 8 Symmetric structures
  24. 9 Sequences in combinatorics
  25. 10 Counting magic squares and magic cubes
  26. Appendix The method of mathematical induction
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index