Combinatorial Problems and Exercises (AMS Chelsea Publishing) |  | Author: Laszlo Lovasz
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
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Edition: 2
Pages: 639
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Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0821842625
Dewey Decimal Number: 511.6076
EAN: 9780821842621
ASIN: 0821842625
Publication Date: June 26, 2007
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Product Description
The main purpose of this book is to provide help in learning existing techniques in combinatorics. The most effective way of learning such techniques is to solve exercises and problems. This book presents all the material in the form of problems and series of problems (apart from some general comments at the beginning of each chapter). In the second part, a hint is given for each exercise, which contains the main idea necessary for the solution, but allows the reader to practice the techniques by completing the proof. In the third part, a full solution is provided for each problem. This book will be useful to those students who intend to start research in graph theory, combinatorics or their applications, and for those researchers who feel that combinatorial techniques might help them with their work in other branches of mathematics, computer science, management science, electrical engineering and so on. For background, only the elements of linear algebra, group theory, probability and calculus are needed.
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Buy from AMS; new print available November 6, 2008
S. Oum (Princeton, NJ USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is certainly excellent; moreover, you can now buy cheaper because it is in print again by AMS.
ISBN: 0821842625
comprehensive February 18, 2004
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This text consists purely of exercises and solutions. This seems like a difficult way to learn combinatorics (or any mathematics for that matter) but it is surprisingly effective. Lovasz starts off with simple problems that anyone can solve and quickly moves to more advanced problems. Lovasz's text covers more material than any other introductory combinatorics text I've seen.For a more traditional (expository) introduction, consider Brualdi's Introductory Combinatorics.
Superb exposition of combinatorics via problems June 8, 1999
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
This problem book will take the reader from a novice to an expert in the emerging area of discrete mathematics.
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