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Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction

Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction

Wilson, Robin

Paperback

Series: Very Short Introductions

General Mathematics

Publisher Price: $12.99

ISBN10: 0198723490
ISBN13: 9780198723493
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 1 2016
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.20 Depth: 6.80
Language: English
How many possible sudoku puzzles are there? In the lottery, what is the chance that two winning balls have consecutive numbers? Who invented Pascal's triangle? (it was not Pascal)

Combinatorics, the branch of mathematics concerned with selecting, arranging, and listing or counting collections of objects, works to answer all these questions. Dating back some 3000 years, and initially consisting mainly of the study of permutations and combinations, its scope has broadened to include topics such as graph theory, partitions of numbers, block designs, design of codes, and latin squares. In this Very Short Introduction Robin Wilson gives an overview of the field and its applications in mathematics and computer theory, considering problems from the shortest routes covering certain stops to the minimum number of colours needed to colour a map with different colours for neighbouring countries.

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