文档介绍：Progress in Mathematics
Volume 41
Series Editors
Hyman Bass
Joseph Oesterle
Alan Weinstein
Richard P. Stanley
Combinatorics
and
Commutative Algebra
Second Edition
Birkhauser
Boston • Basel • Berlin
Richard P. Stanley
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
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Stanley, Richard P., 1944-
Combinatorics mutative algebra / Richard P. Stanley. — 2nd
ed.
p. cm. —(Progress in mathematics ; v. 41)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8176-3836-9 (alk. paper). - ISBN 3-7643-3836-9 (alk.
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1. Commutative algebra. 2. Combinatorial analysis. I. Title.
II. Series: Progress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.) ; vol. 41
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Contents
Preface to the Second Edition vii
Preface to the Fi