Applied Combinatorics

By Mitchel T. Keller and William T. Trotter

This is a text with more than enough material for a one-semester introduction to combinatorics. The original target audience was primarily computer science majors, but the topics included make it suitable for a variety of different students. Topics include Basic enumeration: strings, sets, binomial coefficients Recursion and mathematical induction Graph theory Partially ordered sets Additional enumeration techniques: inclusion-exclusion, generating functions, recurrence relations, and Polya theory. Graph algorithms: minimum weight spanning trees, Dijkstra's algorithm, network flows

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1534878653
• ISBN13: 9781534878655
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.7"