Appropriate for one- or two-semester, junior- to senior-level combinatorics courses.
This trusted best-seller covers the key combinatorial ideas-including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Polya counting, binomial coefficients, inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions and recurrence relations, combinatortial structures (matchings, designs, graphs), and flows in networks. The Fifth Edition incorporates feedback from users to the exposition throughout and adds a wealth of new exercises.
- ISBN10 0132791714
- ISBN13 9780132791717
- Publish Date 19 May 2011 (first published March 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 648
- Language English