Introductory Combinatorics: International Edition - Softcover

Brualdi, Richard A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132791714 ISBN 13: 9780132791717

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

Appropriate for one- or two-semester, junior- to senior-level combinatorics courses.

This trusted best-seller covers the key combinatorial ideas—including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Pólya counting, binomial coefficients, inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions and recurrence relations, combinatortial structures (matchings, designs, graphs), and flows in networks. The Fifth Edition incorporates feedback from users to the exposition throughout and adds a wealth of new exercises.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard A. Brualdi is Bascom Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics from 1993-1999. His research interests lie in matrix theory and combinatorics/graph theory. Professor Brualdi is the author or co-author of six books, and has published extensively. He is one of the editors-in-chief of the journal "Linear Algebra and its Applications" and of the journal "Electronic Journal of Combinatorics." He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the International Linear Algebra Society, and the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications. He is also a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0132791714
• ISBN 13: 9780132791717
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 648