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A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates: Counting Strategies
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 511.6
EAN: 9780817642884
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0817642889
Label: Birkhäuser Boston
Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Boston
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 228
Publication Date: November 11, 2003
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Studio: Birkhäuser Boston
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Editorial Review:A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates is a lively introduction not only to combinatorics, but also to mathematical ingenuity, rigor, and the joy of solving puzzles. 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 and other competitions, as well as a number of problems original to the authors; at the end of each chapter are further exercises to reinforce understanding, encourage creativity, and build a repertory of problem-solving techniques.
The authors' previous text, 102 Combinatorial Problems, makes a fine companion volume to the present work, which is ideal for Olympiad participants and coaches, advanced high school students, undergraduates, and college instructors. The book's unusual problems and examples will interest seasoned mathematicians as well.
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The book is written very clearly and presents a lot of combinatorial subjects by very interesting examples.
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