Catalan Numbers with Applications

by Thomas Koshy

Like the intriguing Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, Catalan numbers are also ubiquitous. "They have the same delightful propensity for popping up unexpectedly, particularly in combinatorial problems," Martin Gardner wrote in Scientific American. "Indeed, the Catalan sequence is probably the most frequently encountered sequence that is still obscure enough to cause mathematicians lacking access to Sloane's Handbook of Integer Sequences to expend inordinate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019533454X
• ISBN13: 9780195334548
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"