Introductory combinatorics

Introductory Combinatorics, Third Edition , is designed for introductory courses in combinatorics, or more generally, discrete mathematics for students in a wide variety of mathematics, computer science, statistics, operations research, physical sciences, and behavioral sciences. The rapid growth in the breadth and depth of the field of combinatorics in the last several decades, first in graph theory and designs and more recently in enumeration and ordered sets, has led to a recognition of combinatorics as a field with which the aspiring mathematician should become familiar. A long-overdue new edition of a popular set, Introductory Combinatorics, Third Edition , presents a broad comprehensive survey of modern combinatorics that is important to the various scientific fields of study.