Introductory Combinatorics

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Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004 - Mathematics - 630 pages

Appropriate for an undergraduate junior/senior level mathematics course on combinatorics.

This, the best selling book in its market, emphasizes combinatorial ideas including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Pòlya counting, binomial coefficients, inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions and recurrence relations, and combinatortial structures (matchings, designs, graphs), flows in networks.

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