ABSTRACT

Accessible to undergraduate students, Introduction to Combinatorics presents approaches for solving counting and structural questions. It looks at how many ways a selection or arrangement can be chosen with a specific set of properties and determines if a selection or arrangement of objects exists that has a particular set of properties.To give stu

chapter 1|26 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

Fundamentals of Enumeration

chapter 4|16 pages

The Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion

chapter 6|20 pages

Catalan, Bell and Stirling Numbers

chapter 7|20 pages

Symmetries and the Po´lya-Redfield Method

chapter 8|16 pages

Introduction to Graph Theory

chapter 9|30 pages

Further Graph Theory

chapter 10|18 pages

Coding Theory

chapter 11|24 pages

Latin Squares

chapter 12|20 pages

Balanced Incomplete Block Designs

chapter 13|20 pages

Linear Algebra Methods in Combinatorics