Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 1 (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics) - Hardcover

Stanley, Richard P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107015421 ISBN 13: 9781107015425

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Richard Stanley's two-volume basic introduction to enumerative combinatorics has become the standard guide to the topic for students and experts alike. This thoroughly revised second edition of Volume 1 includes more than 300 new exercises, many with solutions, updated and expanded chapter bibliographies, substantial new material on permutation statistics, coverage of additional topic such as hyperplan arrangements and the cd-index, and a rearranged and generalized treatment of P-partitions.

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About the Author

Richard P. Stanley is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is universally recognized as a leading expert in the field of combinatorics and its applications to a variety of other mathematical disciplines. In addition to the seminal two-volume book Enumerative Combinatorics, he is the author of Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra (1983) as well as more than 100 research articles in mathematics. Among Stanley's many distinctions are membership in the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1995), the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for mathematical exposition and the 2003 Schock Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107015421
• ISBN 13: 9781107015425
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 642