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
Part of the book series: Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic (PCS, volume 4)
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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)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Notes on Introductory Combinatorics
Authors: George Pólya, Robert E. Tarjan, Donald R. Woods
Series Title: Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4953-1
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-4953-1Published: 02 December 2009
Series ISSN: 2297-0576
Series E-ISSN: 2297-0584
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 192
Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theory of Computation, Combinatorics, Algorithms, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, Numeric Computing
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