A Course in Combinatorics

Thisisthesecondeditionofapopularbookoncombinatorics,asubjectdealingwithwaysofarranginganddistributingobjects,andwhichinvolvesideasfromgeometry,algebraandanalysis.Thebreadthofthetheoryismatchedbythatofitsapplications,whichincludetopicsasdiverseascodes,circuitdesignandalgorithmcomplexity.Ithasthusbecomeessentialforworkersinmanyscientificfieldstohavesomefamiliaritywiththesubject.Theauthorshavetriedtobeascomprehensiveaspossible,dealinginaunifiedmannerwith,forexample,graphtheory,extremalproblems,designs,coloringsandcodes.Thedepthandbreadthofthecoveragemakethebookauniqueguidetothewholeofthesubject.Thebookisidealforcoursesoncombinatoricalmathematicsattheadvancedundergraduateorbeginninggraduatelevel.Workingmathematiciansandscientistswillalsofinditavaluableintroductionandreference.