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1 online resource |
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Cover; Contents; Part I: Introduction; Two thousand years of combinatorics; Part II: Ancient Combinatorics; 1. Indian combinatorics; 2. China; 3. Islamic combinatorics; 4. Jewish combinatorics; 5. Renaissance combinatorics; 6. The origins of modern combinatorics; 7. The arithmetical triangle; Part III: Modern Combinatorics; 8. Early graph theory; 9. Partitions; 10. Block designs; 11. Latin squares; 12. Enumeration (18th-20th centuries); 13. Combinatorial set theory; 14. Modern graph theory; Part IV: Aftermath; A personal view of combinatorics; Notes on contributors |
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Picture sources and acknowledgementsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Who first presented Pascal's triangle? (It was not Pascal.)Who first presented Hamiltonian graphs? (It was not Hamilton.)Who first presented Steiner triple systems? (It was not Steiner.) The history of mathematics is a well-studied and vibrant area of research, with books and scholarly articles published on various aspects of the subject. Yet, the history of combinatorics seems to have been largely overlooked. This book goes some way to redress this and serves two main purposes: 1) it constitutes the first book-length survey of the history of combinatorics; and 2) it assembles, for the first t |
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Print version record |
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Combinatorial analysis.
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MATHEMATICS -- Combinatorics.
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Combinatorial analysis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191630620 |
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0191630624 |
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1299683967 |
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9781299683969 |
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