Combinatorics
A Very Short Introduction
$29.77
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2016
Summary
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 top…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198723493 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0198723490 |
| Author: | Robin Wilson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 114mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Clear and beautifully written … this book is much more than a simple introduction … [Its] great strength is that while examining a number of important concepts in detail, the author does so … without using complicated abstract formulae. * Mathematics Today *
About The Author
Robin Wilson
Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited many books on the history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland, and also on graph theory, including Introduction to Graph Theory and Four Colours Suffice. Involved with the popularization of mathematics and its history, he has been awarded the Mathematical Association of America’s Lester Ford award and Pólya prize for his ‘outstanding expository writing’, and the Ralph Stanton Award for outreach activities in combinatorics. He has Erdõs Number 1.
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