Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 2 (Paperback)

Richard Stanley

ISBN 10: 1009262483 / ISBN 13: 9781009262484

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023

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Paperback. Richard Stanley's two-volume basic introduction to enumerative combinatorics has become the standard guide to the topic for students and experts alike. This thoroughly revised second edition of volume two covers the composition of generating functions, in particular the exponential formula and the Lagrange inversion formula, labelled and unlabelled trees, algebraic, D-finite, and noncommutative generating functions, and symmetric functions. The chapter on symmetric functions provides the only available treatment of this subject suitable for an introductory graduate course and focusing on combinatorics, especially the RobinsonSchenstedKnuth algorithm. An appendix by Sergey Fomin covers some deeper aspects of symmetric functions, including jeu de taquin and the LittlewoodRichardson rule. The exercises in the book play a vital role in developing the material, and this second edition features over 400 exercises, including 159 new exercises on symmetric functions, all with solutions or references to solutions. Richard Stanley's two-volume basic introduction to enumerative combinatorics has become the standard guide to the topic for students and experts alike. This updated edition provides the only comprehensive high-level treatment of enumerative combinatorics, including the theory of symmetric functions, with over 150 new exercises and solutions. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 2 (Paperback)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009262483
• ISBN 13: 9781009262484
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Revised second volume of the standard guide to enumerative combinatorics, including the theory of symmetric functions and 159 new exercises.

About the Author

Richard P. Stanley is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami. He has written over 180 research articles and six books. Among Stanley's many distinctions are membership in the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1995) and the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition.