Introductory Combinatorics emphasizes combinatorial ideas, including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Polya counting, binomial coefficients,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
The book I ordered came in an extremely timely manner, and was in the condition specified when I bought it.
nice accessable text
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Most (but not all) of the copious errors in earlier editions have been fixed. (Brualdi maintains an errata list on his website.) I like this book a lot, it has a nice, relaxed style of exposition and the choice of topics is good for an introductory course.
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