文档介绍：Combinatorics
Second Edition
WILEY-INTERSCIENCE
SERIES IN DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND OPTIMIZATION
ADVISORY EDITORS
RONALD L. GRAHM
University of California at San Diego, .
JAN KAREL LENSTRA
Department of Mathematics puter Science,
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, herlands
JOEL H. SPENCER
Courant Institute, New York, New York, .
plete list of titles in this series appears at the end of this volume.
Combinatorics
SECOND EDITION
RUSSELL MERRIS
California State University, Hayward
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Merris, Russell, 1943–
Combinatorics / Russell Merris.–2nd ed.
p. cm. –(Wiley series in discrete mathematics and optimization)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-0-471-26296-X (acid-free paper)
1. Combinatorial analysis I. Title. II. Series.
2003
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This book is dedicated to my wife, Karen Diehl