Download or read book 102 Combinatorial Problems written by Titu Andreescu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "102 Combinatorial Problems" consists of carefully selected problems that have been used in the training and testing of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) team. Key features: * Provides in-depth enrichment in the important areas of combinatorics by reorganizing and enhancing problem-solving tactics and strategies * Topics include: combinatorial arguments and identities, generating functions, graph theory, recursive relations, sums and products, probability, number theory, polynomials, theory of equations, complex numbers in geometry, algorithmic proofs, combinatorial and advanced geometry, functional equations and classical inequalities The book is systematically organized, gradually building combinatorial skills and techniques and broadening the student's view of mathematics. Aside from its practical use in training teachers and students engaged in mathematical competitions, it is a source of enrichment that is bound to stimulate interest in a variety of mathematical areas that are tangential to combinatorics.
Download or read book Combinatorics II Problems and Solutions written by Stefan Hollos and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals mainly with pattern counting problems. It is a continuation of our previous combinatorics problem book. There are 80 problems with detailed solutions, including 70 figures, many of which are examples of patterns. The book will teach you powerful methods for counting patterns. These methods should be in the toolbox of every combinatorialist. It also provides the means to generate patterns with programs that can be downloaded from the book's web page at abrazol.com. The book starts with patterns that can be described by regular expressions and finite automata. It shows how to get generating functions for families of patterns from a regular expression or it's corresponding finite automaton. It then looks at pattern counting problems that involve equivalence under symmetry. For example, how many unique necklaces can one construct using beads of 3 different colors if a rotated necklace is considered the same as the original? These problems are surprisingly easy to answer using a method called Polya's theory of counting. This method and its more general form, called Burnside's theorem are covered. There are many worked out problems that show how to use these methods. Included are problems that find the number of unique ways to color the Platonic solids.
Download or read book Combinatorics Problems and Solutions written by J Richard Hollos and published by Abrazol Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help you learn combinatorics in the most effective way possible - through problem solving. It contains 263 combinatorics problems with detailed solutions. Combinatorics is the part of mathematics that involves counting. It is therefore an essential part of anyone's mathematical toolkit. The applications of combinatorics include probability, cryptography, error correcting, games, music and visual art. In this new edition we have expanded the introductory section by more than twice the original size, and the number of problems has grown by over 30%. There are new sections on the pigeon hole principle and integer partitions with accompanying problems. Many of the new problems are application oriented. There are also new combinatorial geometry problems. Someone with no prior exposure to combinatorics will find enough introductory material to quickly get a grasp of what combinatorics is all about and acquire the confidence to start tackling problems.
Download or read book Combinatorial Problems and Exercises written by L. Lovász and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to introduce a range of combinatorial methods for those who want to apply these methods in the solution of practical and theoretical problems. Various tricks and techniques are taught by means of exercises. Hints are given in a separate section and a third section contains all solutions in detail. A dictionary section gives definitions of the combinatorial notions occurring in the book.Combinatorial Problems and Exercises was first published in 1979. This revised edition has the same basic structure but has been brought up to date with a series of exercises on random walks on graphs and their relations to eigenvalues, expansion properties and electrical resistance. In various chapters the author found lines of thought that have been extended in a natural and significant way in recent years. About 60 new exercises (more counting sub-problems) have been added and several solutions have been simplified.
Download or read book A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates written by Titu Andreescu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique approach to combinatorics is centered around unconventional, essay-type combinatorial examples, followed by a number of carefully selected, challenging problems and extensive discussions of their solutions. Topics encompass permutations and combinations, binomial coefficients and their applications, bijections, inclusions and exclusions, and generating functions. Each chapter features fully-worked problems, including many from Olympiads and other competitions, as well as a number of problems original to the authors; at the end of each chapter are further exercises to reinforce understanding, encourage creativity, and build a repertory of problem-solving techniques. The authors' previous text, "102 Combinatorial Problems," makes a fine companion volume to the present work, which is ideal for Olympiad participants and coaches, advanced high school students, undergraduates, and college instructors. The book's unusual problems and examples will interest seasoned mathematicians as well. "A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates" is a lively introduction not only to combinatorics, but to mathematical ingenuity, rigor, and the joy of solving puzzles.
Download or read book Combinatorics The Art of Counting written by Bruce E. Sagan and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a gentle introduction to the enumerative part of combinatorics suitable for study at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. In addition to covering all the standard techniques for counting combinatorial objects, the text contains material from the research literature which has never before appeared in print, such as the use of quotient posets to study the Möbius function and characteristic polynomial of a partially ordered set, or the connection between quasisymmetric functions and pattern avoidance. The book assumes minimal background, and a first course in abstract algebra should suffice. The exposition is very reader friendly: keeping a moderate pace, using lots of examples, emphasizing recurring themes, and frankly expressing the delight the author takes in mathematics in general and combinatorics in particular.
Download or read book Problems in Combinatorics and Graph Theory written by Ioan Tomescu and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1985-04-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the most important combinatorial structures and techniques. This is a book of problems and solutions which range in difficulty and scope from the elementary/student-oriented to open questions at the research level. Each problem is accompanied by a complete and detailed solution together with appropriate references to the mathematical literature, helping the reader not only to learn but to apply the relevant discrete methods. The text is unique in its range and variety -- some problems include straightforward manipulations while others are more complicated and require insights and a solid foundation of combinatorics and/or graph theory. Includes a dictionary of terms that makes many of the challenging problems accessible to those whose mathematical education is limited to highschool algebra.
Download or read book Problem Solving Methods in Combinatorics written by Pablo Soberón and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year there is at least one combinatorics problem in each of the major international mathematical olympiads. These problems can only be solved with a very high level of wit and creativity. This book explains all the problem-solving techniques necessary to tackle these problems, with clear examples from recent contests. It also includes a large problem section for each topic, including hints and full solutions so that the reader can practice the material covered in the book. The material will be useful not only to participants in the olympiads and their coaches but also in university courses on combinatorics.
Download or read book Combinatorics written by Pavle Mladenović and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a theoretical background for several topics in combinatorial mathematics, such as enumerative combinatorics (including partitions and Burnside's lemma), magic and Latin squares, graph theory, extremal combinatorics, mathematical games and elementary probability. A number of examples are given with explanations while the book also provides more than 300 exercises of different levels of difficulty that are arranged at the end of each chapter, and more than 130 additional challenging problems, including problems from mathematical olympiads. Solutions or hints to all exercises and problems are included. The book can be used by secondary school students preparing for mathematical competitions, by their instructors, and by undergraduate students. The book may also be useful for graduate students and for researchers that apply combinatorial methods in different areas.
Download or read book Combinatorial Problems in Mathematical Competitions written by Yao Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. This text provides basic knowledge on how to solve combinatorial problems in mathematical competitions, and also introduces important solutions to combinatorial problems and some typical problems with often-used solutions.
Download or read book Counting and Configurations written by Jiri Herman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents methods of solving problems in three areas of elementary combinatorial mathematics: classical combinatorics, combinatorial arithmetic, and combinatorial geometry. Brief theoretical discussions are immediately followed by carefully worked-out examples of increasing degrees of difficulty and by exercises that range from routine to rather challenging. The book features approximately 310 examples and 650 exercises.
Download or read book Bijective Combinatorics written by Nicholas Loehr and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bijective proofs are some of the most elegant and powerful techniques in all of mathematics. Suitable for readers without prior background in algebra or combinatorics, Bijective Combinatorics presents a general introduction to enumerative and algebraic combinatorics that emphasizes bijective methods.The text systematically develops the mathematical
Download or read book Applied Combinatorics written by Alan Tucker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1980 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enumerative Combinatorics Volume 1 written by Richard P. Stanley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ten new sections and more than 300 new exercises, most with solutions, reflecting numerous new developments since the publication of the first edition in 1986. The author brings the coverage up to date and includes a wide variety of additional applications and examples, as well as updated and expanded chapter bibliographies. Many of the less difficult new exercises have no solutions so that they can more easily be assigned to students. The material on P-partitions has been rearranged and generalized; the treatment of permutation statistics has been greatly enlarged; and there are also new sections on q-analogues of permutations, hyperplane arrangements, the cd-index, promotion and evacuation and differential posets.
Download or read book Principles and Techniques in Combinatorics written by Chuan-Chong Chen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook suitable for undergraduate courses. The materials are presented very explicitly so that students will find it very easy to read. A wide range of examples, about 500 combinatorial problems taken from various mathematical competitions and exercises are also included.
Download or read book Combinatorics written by Peter Jephson Cameron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combinatorics is a subject of increasing importance because of its links with computer science, statistics, and algebra. This textbook stresses common techniques (such as generating functions and recursive construction) that underlie the great variety of subject matter, and the fact that a constructive or algorithmic proof is more valuable than an existence proof. The author emphasizes techniques as well as topics and includes many algorithms described in simple terms. The text should provide essential background for students in all parts of discrete mathematics.
Download or read book Challenging Mathematical Problems with Elementary Solutions written by ?. ? ????? and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of a two-part series, this book features 74 problems from various branches of mathematics. Topics include points and lines, topology, convex polygons, theory of primes, and other subjects. Complete solutions.
