Beschreibung:
Inquiry-Based Enumerative Combinatoricsis ideal for lower-division undergraduate students majoring in math or computer science, as there are no formal mathematics prerequisites. Because it includes many connections to recent research, students of any level who are interested in combinatorics will also find this a valuable resource.
0. Introduction to this book.- 1. First Principles.- 2. Permutations.- 3. Combinations.- 4. The Binomial Theorem.- 5. Recurrences.- 6. Generating Functions.- 7. Exponential Generating Functions and Bell Numbers.- 8. Eulerian Numbers.- 9. Catalan and Narayana Numbers.- 10. Refined Enumeration.- 11. Applications to Probability.- 12. Some Partition Theory.- 13. A Bit of Number Theory.- A. Supplementary Exercises.