Introduction to Combinatorics

by Alan Slomson

By concentrating on counting problems, Introduction to Combinatorics conveys basic ideas of its subject. Topics include combinations, permutations, the inclusion-exclusion principles, partitions, Stirling's Formula, generating functions, recurrence relations, groups, group actions, and graphs. The final two chapters discuss the application of group theory to counting patterns, via Burnside's Theorem and Polya's Theorem. Slomson's approach is to begin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412353601
• ISBN13: 9780412353604
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary