Richard P. Stanley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Enumerative Combinatorics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Richard Stanley's two-volume basic introduction to enumerative combinatorics has become the standard guide to the topic for students and experts alike. This thoroughly revised second edition of Volume 1 includes more than 300 new exercises, many with solutions, updated and expanded chapter bibliographies and substantial new material on permutation statistics.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 642
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 858g
• ISBN-13: 9781107602625
• ISBN-10: 1107602629
• Artikelnr.: 34386175

Autorenporträt

Richard P. Stanley is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is universally recognized as a leading expert in the field of combinatorics and its applications to a variety of other mathematical disciplines. In addition to the seminal two-volume book Enumerative Combinatorics, he is the author of Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra (1983) as well as more than 100 research articles in mathematics. Among Stanley's many distinctions are membership in the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1995), the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for mathematical exposition and the 2003 Schock Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is enumerative combinatorics?; 2. Sieve methods; 3. Partially ordered sets; 4. Rational generating functions.

Rezensionen

'... sure to become a standard as an introductory graduate text in combinatorics.' Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society