Overview
- An affordable new softcover edition of a classic text
- Comprehensive introductory overview of combinatorics
- Homework exercises and examinations included, making the book useful in courses
- Results serve as a basis for applications in computer science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics (MBC)
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Keywords
- Eulerian paths
- Hamiltonian paths
- Pólya's theory of counting
- Ramsey theory
- Stirling numbers
- combinations
- generating functions
- permutations
- combinatorics
- algorithm analysis and problem complexity
About this book
"This is a delightful little paperback which presents a day-by-day transcription of a course taught jointly by Pólya and Tarjan at Stanford University. Woods, the teaching assistant for the class, did a very good job of merging class notes into an interesting mini-textbook; he also included the exercises, homework, and tests assigned in the class (a very helpful addition for other instructors in the field). The notes are very well illustrated throughout and Woods and the Birkhäuser publishers produced a very pleasant text.
One can count on [Pólya and Tarjan] for new insights and a fresh outlook. Both instructors taught by presenting a succession of examples rather than by presenting a body of theory…[The book] is very well suited as supplementary material for any introductory class on combinatorics; as such, it is very highly recommended. Finally, for all of us who like the topic and delight in observing skilled professionals at work, this book is entertaining and, yes, instructive, reading." Mathematical Reviews (Review of the original hardcover edition)
"The mathematical community welcomes this book as a final contribution to honour the teacher G. Pólya." Zentralblatt MATH (Review of the original hardcover edition)
Reviews
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“The purpose of this re-publication was to make modern classics books like this one remain accessible to new generations of students, scholars and researchers.” (Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1195, 2010)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Notes on Introductory Combinatorics
Authors: George Pólya, Robert E. Tarjan, Donald R. Woods
Series Title: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4952-4Published: 17 November 2009
Series ISSN: 2197-1803
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 192
Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations