A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates: Counting Strategies

by Zuming Feng, Titu Andreescu, Andreescu

This unique approach to combinatorics is centered around unconventional, essay-type combinatorial examples, followed by a number of carefully selected, challenging problems and extensive discussions of their solutions. Topics encompass permutations and combinations, binomial coefficients and their applications, bijections, inclusions and exclusions, and generating functions. Each chapter features fully-worked problems, including many from Olympiads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817642889
• ISBN13: 9780817642884
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"