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020 _a9780000987648
028 _a: Technical Bureau
_b: E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi.
_c:TB1685
_d: 14/09/2023
082 _a511.6 BON
100 _aBona, Miklos.
100 _a; Stanley, Richard P.
245 _aA walk through combinatorics
_b : an introduction to enumeration and graph theory.
_c/Miklos Bona,
260 _a, New Jersey
_b: World Scientific
_c, 2017.
300 _axx, 593 pages
_b: illustrations
_c ; 24 cm.
365 _b1595
520 _aThis is a textbook for an introductory combinatorics course lasting one or two semesters. An extensive list of problems, ranging from routine exercises to research questions, is included. In each section, there are also exercises that contain material not explicitly discussed in the preceding text, so as to provide instructors with extra choices if they want to shift the emphasis of their course.Just as with the first three editions, the new edition walks the reader through the classic parts of combinatorial enumeration and graph theory, while also discussing some recent progress in the area: on the one hand, providing material that will help students learn the basic techniques, and on the other hand, showing that some questions at the forefront of research are comprehensible and accessible to the talented and hardworking undergraduate. The basic topics discussed are: the twelvefold way, cycles in permutations, the formula of inclusion and exclusion, the notion of graphs and trees, matchings, Eulerian and Hamiltonian cycles, and planar graphs.New to this edition are the Quick Check exercises at the end of each section. In all, the new edition contains about 240 new exercises. Extra examples were added to some sections where readers asked for them.The selected advanced topics are: Ramsey theory, pattern avoidance, the probabilistic method, partially ordered sets, the theory of designs, enumeration under group action, generating functions of labeled and unlabeled structures and algorithms and complexity.The book encourages students to learn more combinatorics, provides them with a not only useful but also enjoyable and engaging reading.
650 _aCombinatorial analysis
650 _aGraph theory
650 _aCombinatorial enumeration problems
700 _aMiklos Bona
942 _cBOOK
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