
Preface.- Prolog: What this Book Is About.- Notation.- Counting.- Advanced Counting.- Probabilistic Counting.- The Pigeonhole Principle.- Systems of Distinct Representatives.- Sunflowers.- Intersecting Families.- Chains and Antichains.- Blocking Sets and the Duality.- Density...

This book is a concise, self-contained, up-to-date introduction to extremal combinatorics for nonspecialists. There is a strong emphasis on theorems with particularly elegant and informative proofs, they may be called gems of the theory. The author presents a wide spectrum...
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