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Summa Summarum: CMS Treatises in Mathematics

By Mogens Esrom Larsen

Book information

Publisher
A K Peters
Year
2007
ISBN
1568813236, 9781568813233
LCC
QA246.7 .L37 2007
Open Library ID
OL12190687M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
905 kB (926713 bytes)
Pages
242\242
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-10 16:00:00
Математика;Дискретная математика

Description

Every mathematician, and user of mathematics, needs to manipulate sums or to find and handle combinatorial identities. In this book, the author provides a coherent tour of many known finite algebraic sums and offers a guide for devising simple ways of changing a given sum to a standard form that can be evaluated . As such, Summa Summarum serves as both an introduction and a reference for researchers, graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, and non-specialists alike: from tools as distinct as the most classical ideas of Euler to the recent effective computer algorithms by Gosper and Wilf-Zeilberger. The book is self-contained with relatively few prerequisites and so should be accessible to a very broad readership. This represents the first in the new Canadian Mathematical Society Treatises in Mathematics series of books: a collection of short monographs, dedicated to well defined subjects of current interest. These treatises emphasize the interdisciplinary character of the mathematical sciences and facilitate integration of methods and results from different areas of current research.

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