Generatingfunctionology - Hardcover

Wilf, Herbert S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0127519564 ISBN 13: 9780127519562

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

This is the Second Edition of the highly successful introduction to the use of generating functions and series in combinatorial mathematics. This new edition includes several new areas of application, including the cycle index of the symmetric group, permutations and square roots, counting polyominoes, and exact covering sequences. An appendix on using the computer algebra programs Maple and Mathematica to generate functions is also included. The book provides a clear, unified introduction to the basic enumerative applications of generating functions, and includes exercises and solutions, many new, at the end of each chapter.

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Review

" ""Wilf's writing is clear and friendly; his exorcises are instructive and plentiful... This book is valuable reading for even the best of specialists..."" -E. Rodney Canfield, The Mathematical Intelligencer , March 1993
""This is a first rate, carefully planned and executed book written by a 'black belt gereratingfunctionologist.' I'll be using it the next time I teach..."" -George Andrews, SIAM News, October 1994
""Wilf's book is very well-written and easy to read by any serious mathematics student. Scientists in other disciplines often encounter the need to study sequences that naturally arise in their own discipline. The book is well-suited fo them, too."" -Short Book Reviews, January 2006"

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0127519564
• ISBN 13: 9780127519562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240