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Title Combinatorics : ancient & modern / Robin Wilson, John J. Watkins, and Ronald Graham
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Pt. I: Introduction : Two thousand years of combinatorics / Donald E. Knuth -- pt. II: Ancient combinatorics : Indian combinatorics / Takanori Kusuba and Kim Plofker ; China / Andrea Bréard ; Islamic combinatorics / Ahmed Djebbar ; Jewish combinatorics / Victor J. Katz ; Renaissance combinatorics / Eberhard Knobloch ; The origins of modern combinatorics / Eberhard Knobloch ; The arithmetical triangle / A.W.F. Edwards -- pt. III: Modern combinatorics : Early graph theory / Robin Wilson ; Partitions / George E. Andrews ; Block designs / Norman Biggs and Robin Wilson ; Latin squares / Lars Døvling Andersen ; Enumeration (18th-20th centuries) / E. Keith Lloyd ; Combinatorial set theory / Ian Anderson ; Modern graph theory / Lowell Beineke and Robin Wilson -- pt. IV: Aftermath : A personal view of combinatorics / Peter J. Cameron
Summary Combinatorics is the branch of discreet mathematics that studies (and counts) permutations, combinations, and arrangements of sets of elements. This book presents a survey of the history of combinatorics and uniquely assembles research in the area that would otherwise be inaccessible to the general reader
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013)
Subject Combinatorial analysis.
Combinatorial analysis -- History
Mathematics, Ancient.
Combinatorial analysis.
Mathematics, Ancient.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Wilson, Robin J., editor
Watkins, John J., editor
Graham, Ronald L., 1935-2020, writer of added text
ISBN 9780191748059
0191748056
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0191630632
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