Introductory examples -- Permutations and combinations -- The inclusion-exclusion principle -- Linear equations with unit coefficients -- Recurrence relations -- Generating functions -- Some methods of proof -- Geometry of the plane -- Maps on a sphere -- Coloring problems -- Finite structures -- Probability -- Ramifications of the binomial theorem -- More generating functions and difference equations -- Fibonacci sequences -- Arrangements
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
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