Problems from the Discrete to the Continuous : Probability, Number Theory, Graph Theory, and Combinatorics

Pinsky, Ross

ISBN 10: 3319079646 / ISBN 13: 9783319079646

Published by Springer, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Problems from the Discrete to the Continuous : Probability, Number Theory, Graph Theory, and Combinatorics
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319079646
• ISBN 13: 9783319079646
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The primary intent of the book is to introduce an array of beautiful problems in a variety of subjects quickly, pithily and completely rigorously to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The book takes a number of specific problems and solves them, the needed tools developed along the way in the context of the particular problems. It treats a melange of topics from combinatorial probability theory, number theory, random graph theory and combinatorics. The problems in this book involve the asymptotic analysis of a discrete construct, as some natural parameter of the system tends to infinity. Besides bridging discrete mathematics and mathematical analysis, the book makes a modest attempt at bridging disciplines. The problems were selected with an eye toward accessibility to a wide audience, including advanced undergraduate students. The book could be used for a seminar course in which students present the lectures.

About the Author

Ross Pinsky is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.