Introductory Combinatorics

By Kenneth P. Bogart

Book Overview

Focusing on the core material of value to students in a wide variety of fields, this book presents a broad comprehensive survey of modern combinatorics at an introductory level. The author begins with an introduction of concepts fundamental to all branches of combinatorics in the context of combinatorial enumeration. Chapter 2 is devoted to enumeration problems that involve counting the number of equivalence classes of an equivalence relation. Chapter 3 discusses somewhat less direct methods of enumeration, the principle of inclusion and exclusion and generating functions. The remainder of the book is devoted to a study of combinatorial structures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0273019236
• ISBN13: 9780273019237
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Pitman Publishing
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the most complete combinatorics books around...

I was amazed at the quality of the descriptions in this book. It has easy to understand examples and does a very good job of connecting combinatorics and graph theory. It even has integer partitions and Stirling numbers.