文档介绍：with a Foreword by Richard Stanley
A Walk Through
Combinatorics
An Introduction to Enumeration and Graph Theory
A Walk Through
Combinatorics
An Introduction to Enumeration and Graph Theory
Second Edition
Miklos Bona
Department of Mathematics
University of Florida
USA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bona, Miklos
A walk binatorics : an antroduction to enumeration and graph theory / Mikl6s Bona.
-- 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 981-256-885-9 (alk. paper)
1. Combinatorial analysis. I. Title.
QA164 .B66 2006
511'.6--dc22 2006048235
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To Linda
To Mikike, Benny and Vinnie
Foreword
The subject binatorics is so vast that the author of a textbook faces
a difficult decision as to what topics to include. There is no more-or-less
canon