Introductory Combinatorics

Brualdi, Richard A.

ISBN 10: 0131001191 / ISBN 13: 9780131001190

Published by Pearson College Div, 2004

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Synopsis:

Appropriate for an undergraduate junior/senior level mathematics course on combinatorics.

This, the best selling book in its market, emphasizes combinatorial ideas including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Pólya counting, binomial coefficients, inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions and recurrence relations, and combinatortial structures (matchings, designs, graphs), flows in networks.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Introductory Combinatorics
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: acceptable