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A course in combinatorics /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lint, Jacobus Hendricus van, 1932-
Otros Autores: Wilson, R. M. (Richard Michael), 1945-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edición:Second edition
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Acceso en línea:Sample text
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Table of contents
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Graphs 1
  • 2. Trees 12
  • 3. Colorings of graphs and Ramsey's theorem 24
  • 4. Turan's theorem and extremal graphs 37
  • 5. Systems of distinct representatives 43
  • 6. Dilworth's theorem and extremal set theory 53
  • 7. Flows in networks 61
  • 8. De Bruijn sequences 71
  • 9. Two (0, 1 *) problems: addressing for graphs and a hash-coding scheme 77
  • 10. The principle of inclusion and exclusion; inversion formulae 89
  • 11. Permanents 98
  • 12. The Van der Waerden conjecture 110
  • 13. Elementary counting; Stirling numbers 119
  • 14. Recursions and generating functions 129
  • 15. Partitions 152
  • 16. (0, 1)-Matrices 169
  • 17. Latin squares 182
  • 18. Hadamard matrices, Reed--Muller codes 199
  • 19. Designs 215
  • 20. Codes and designs 244
  • 21. Strongly regular graphs and partial geometries 261
  • 22. Orthogonal Latin squares 283
  • 23. Projective and combinatorial geometries 303
  • 24. Gaussian numbers and q-analogues 325
  • 25. Lattices and Mobius inversion 333
  • 26. Combinatorial designs and projective geometries 351
  • 27. Difference sets and automorphisms 369
  • 28. Difference sets and the group ring 383
  • 29. Codes and symmetric designs 396
  • 30. Association schemes 405
  • 31. (More) algebraic techniques in graph theory 432
  • 32. Graph connectivity 451
  • 33. Planarity and coloring 459
  • 34. Whitney Duality 472
  • 35. Embeddings of graphs on surfaces 491
  • 36. Electrical networks and squared squares 507
  • 37. Polya theory of counting 522
  • 38. Baranyai's theorem 536
  • Appendix 1. Hints and comments on problems 542
  • Appendix 2. Formal power series 578.