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Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis

By John Riordan

Book information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2002
ISBN
9780486425368, 0486425363
Open Library ID
OL7638816M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3069893 bytes)
Edition
Dover ed
Pages
254\254
Time added
2011-01-08 23:22:23

Description

This introduction to combinatorial analysis defines the subject as "the number of ways there are of doing some well-defined operation." Chapter 1 surveys that part of the theory of permutations and combinations associated with elementary algebra, which leads to the extended treatment of generating functions in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 considers the principle of inclusion and exclusion, which is indispensable to the enumeration of permutations with restricted position given in Chapters 7 and 8. Chapter 4 examines the enumeration of permutations in cyclic representation, while Chapter 5 surveys the theory of distributions and Chapter 6 considers partitions, compositions, and the enumeration of trees and linear graphs. Each chapter includes a problem section. Unabridged republication of the edition published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Canada, 1958.

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