Author

Publication

2000-12-12 - Springer

Language

English

Word Count

50,000 words, Guess

Page Count

200 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number00063762
  • Goodreads1511092
  • LibraryThing2349066

Classifications

  • LCCQA297.4

Description

Discrete mathematics has now established its place in most undergraduate mathematics courses. This textbook provides a concise, readable and accessible introduction to a number of topics in this area, such as enumeration, graph theory, Latin squares and designs. It is aimed at second-year undergraduate mathematics students, and provides them with many of the basic techniques, ideas and results. It contains many worked examples, and each chapter ends with a large number of exercises, with hints or solutions provided for most of them. As well as including standard topics such as binomial coefficients, recurrence, the inclusion-exclusion principle, trees, Hamiltonian and Eulerian graphs, Latin squares and finite projective planes, the text also includes material on the ménage problem, magic squares, Catalan and Stirling numbers, and tournament schedules.

First Sentence

In this chapter we introduce the basic counting methods, the factorial function and the binomial coefficients.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • A First Course in Discrete MathematicsPaperbackSpringer2000-12-12

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