Combinatorial Problems and Exercises (AMS Chelsea Publishing) - Hardcover

Laszlo Lovasz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821842625 ISBN 13: 9780821842621

Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 2007

Synopsis

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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Review

"Lovász provides extensive help to those wishing to learn existing techniques in combinatories, approaching the topic in a participatory lecture format and providing hundreds of progressive exercises." ---- SciTech Book News

Edition details

• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821842625
• ISBN 13: 9780821842621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 639