A comprehensive and authoritative graduate-level text on enumerative combinatorics, covering advanced topics such as composition of generating functions, trees, algebraic and D-finite generating functions, noncommutative generating functions, and symmetric functions including an in-depth treatment of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm. The volume concludes with an appendix by Sergey Fomin that explores deeper aspects of symmetric function theory, such as jeu de taquin and the Littlewood Richardson rule. ; 15.8x23x3.8cm; XII,585 pages.

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Title: Enumerative Combinatorics - Volume 2 - Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 62
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, U. S. A
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521789877
ISBN 13: 9780521789875
Binding: Softcover
Edition: Paperback Edition; (?).
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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This second volume of a two-volume basic introduction to enumerative combinatorics covers the composition of generating functions, trees, algebraic generating functions, D-finite generating functions, noncommutative generating functions, and symmetric functions. The chapter on symmetric functions provides the only available treatment of this subject suitable for an introductory graduate course on combinatorics, and includes the important Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm. Also covered are connections between symmetric functions and representation theory. An appendix by Sergey Fomin covers some deeper aspects of symmetric function theory, including jeu de taquin and the Littlewood-Richardson rule. As in Volume 1, the exercises play a vital role in developing the material. There are over 250 exercises, all with solutions or references to solutions, many of which concern previously unpublished results. Graduate students and research mathematicians who wish to apply combinatorics to their work will find this an authoritative reference.

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This is the second volume of a two-volume work on the subject of enumerative combinatorics, an area of mathematics with connections to many other topics within and outside of mathematics, such as computer science, spectroscopy, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, and representation theory. Many topics covered (in particular, the theory of symmetric functions) are not available in any other textbook at this level, and the usefulness of the book is enhanced by over 250 exercises with solutions.Although primarily intended as a textbook for graduate students and a resource for professional mathematicians, some parts of the book will be accessible to mathematics undergraduates and even interested amateurs.

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