Combinatorics

Name: Combinatorics
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A Very Short Introduction

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Combinatorics is a large branch of mathematics involving the counting, selecting, and arranging of objects. Robin Wilson explores the field, looking at problems such as the shortest routes from A to B, to the number of Sudoku puzzles possible.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: What is combinatorics?

2: Four types of problem

3: Permutations and combinations

4: A combinatorial zoo

5: Tilings and polyhedra

6: Graphs

7: Square arrays

8: Designs and geometry

9: Partitions

Further Reading

Index

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Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. Juli 2016

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

176

Reihe

Very Short Introductions

Autor/Autorin

Robin Wilson

Verlag/Hersteller

Oxford University Press

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

136 g

Größe (L/B/H)

174/113/17 mm

ISBN

9780198723493

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Portrait

Robin Wilson

Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited many books on the history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland, and also on graph theory, including Introduction to Graph Theory and Four Colours Suffice. Involved with the popularization of mathematics and its history, he has been awarded the Mathematical Association of America's Lester Ford award and Pólya prize for his 'outstanding expository writing', and the Ralph Stanton Award for outreach activities in combinatorics. He has Erdõs Number 1.

Pressestimmen

Clear and beautifully written ... this book is much more than a simple introduction ... [Its] great strength is that while examining a number of important concepts in detail, the author does so ... without using complicated abstract formulae. Mathematics Today

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