
The author is well known to the math community as an excellent researcher and expositor in the fields of combinatorics and algebra. His first book was widely read. In this second edition, which contains a significant amount of new material in areas of current interest, Stanley,...

Some remarkable connections between commutative algebra and combinatorics have been discovered in recent years. This book provides an overview of two of the main topics in this area. The first concerns the solutions of linear equations in nonnegative integers. Applications are...