Counting Strategies
Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 371 g
ISBN: 978-0-8176-4288-4
Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston
The main goal of the two authors is to help undergraduate students understand the concepts and ideas of combinatorics, an important realm of mathematics, and to enable them to ultimately achieve excellence in this field. This goal is accomplished by familiariz ing students with typical examples illustrating central mathematical facts, and by challenging students with a number of carefully selected problems. It is essential that the student works through the exercises in order to build a bridge between ordinary high school permutation and combination exercises and more sophisticated, intricate, and abstract concepts and problems in undergraduate combinatorics. The extensive discussions of the solutions are a key part of the learning process. The concepts are not stacked at the beginning of each section in a blue box, as in many undergraduate textbooks. Instead, the key mathematical ideas are carefully worked into organized, challenging, and instructive examples. The authors are proud of their strength, their collection of beautiful problems, which they have accumulated through years of work preparing students for the International Math ematics Olympiads and other competitions. A good foundation in combinatorics is provided in the first six chapters of this book. While most of the problems in the first six chapters are real counting problems, it is in chapters seven and eight where readers are introduced to essay-type proofs. This is the place to develop significant problem-solving experience, and to learn when and how to use available skills to complete the proofs.
Zielgruppe
Lower undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Algebraische Geometrie
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Elementare Algebra
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research Graphentheorie
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Elementare Geometrie: Allgemeines
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface.- Introduction.- Acknowledgments.- Abbreviations and Notations.- Addition on Multiplication?- Combinations.- Properties of Binomial Coefficients.- Bijections.- Inclusions and Exclusions.- Recursions.- Calculating in Two Ways – Fubini's Principle.- Generating Functions.- Review Exercises.- Glossary.- Further Reading.
