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- An affordable softcover edition of a classic text
- Over five decades of original papers from the luminaries that defined the field of Combinatorics. Including:
- T. van Aardenne-Ehrenfest.- R.L. Brooks.- N.G. de Bruijn.- G.F. Clements.- H.H. Crapo.- R.P. Dilworth.- J. Edmonds.- P.Erdös.- L.R. Ford, Jr.- D.R. Fulkerson.- D. Gale.- L. Geissinger.- I.J. Good.- R.L. Graham.- A.W. Hales.- P. Hall.- P.R. Halmos.- R.I. Jewett.- I. Kaplansky.- P.W. Kasteleyn.- G. Katona.- D.J. Kleitman.- K. Leeb.- B. Lindström.- L. Lovász.- D. Lubell.- C. St. J.A. Nash-Williams.- G. Pólya.- F.P. Ramsey.- G.C. Rota.- B.L. Rothschild.- H.J. Ryser.- C. Schensted.- M.P. Schützenberger.- R.P. Stanley.- G. Szekeres.- W.T. Tutte.- H.E. Vaughan.- H. Whitney.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics (MBC)
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Table of contents (39 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This volume surveys the development of combinatorics since 1930 by presenting in chronological order the fundamental results of the subject proved in over five decades of original papers by:.-T. van Aardenne-Ehrenfest.-R.L. Brooks.-N.G. de Bruijn.-G.F. Clements.-H.H. Crapo.-R.P. Dilworth.-J. Edmonds.-P.Erdös.-L.R. Ford, Jr.-D.R. Fulkerson.-D. Gale.-L. Geissinger.-I.J. Good.-R.L. Graham.-A.W. Hales.-P. Hall.-P.R. Halmos.-R.I. Jewett.-I. Kaplansky.-P.W. Kasteleyn.-G. Katona.-D.J. Kleitman.-K. Leeb.-B. Lindström.-L. Lovász.-D. Lubell.-C. St. J.A. Nash-Williams.-G. Pólya.-F.P. Ramsey.-G.C. Rota.-B.L. Rothschild.-H.J. Ryser.-C. Schensted.-M.P. Schützenberger.-R.P. Stanley.-G. Szekeres.-W.T. Tutte.-H.E. Vaughan.-H. Whitney.
Keywords
- Acyclic orientations of graphs
- Combinatorial theorem of Macaulay
- Combinatorics
- Graph Theory and Probability
- Möbius Functions
- Möbius inversion in lattices
- Non-separable and planar graphs
- Partition Calculus
- Positional games
- Set Theory
- Sperner's lemma
- Subsets
- decomposition theorem
- lemma of Littlewood and Oxford
- partially ordered sets
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
Ira Gessel
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Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
Gian-Carlo Rota
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Classic Papers in Combinatorics
Editors: Ira Gessel, Gian-Carlo Rota
Series Title: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4842-8
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 1987
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4841-1Published: 26 November 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-4842-8Published: 06 October 2010
Series ISSN: 2197-1803
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 492
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Combinatorics, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Number Theory, Mathematics, general