The spirit and aim of this book is to present a compact introduction to the basic combinatorial tools - such as recurrence relations, generating functions, incidence matrices, and the inclusion-exclusion principle - that will give the reader a flavour of the distinctive characteristics of this attractive and increasingly important branch of mathematics. A studly of block designs is followed by a brief mention of applications to coding theory.
In this new edition, Steiner triple systems are constructed and S(5,8,24) is obtained via the Golay code of length 24. The final chapter combines together the three combinatorial structures of the Leech lattice, the Golay codes, and Steiner systems. Also in this edition, an application of the marriage theorem to score sequences of tournaments has been included.
| ISBN: | 9780198596738 |
| Publication date: | 4th May 1989 |
| Author: | Ian Anderson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 134 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series |
| Genres: |
Numerical analysis Combinatorics and graph theory Applied mathematics Mathematical theory of computation |
The spirit and aim of this book is to present a compact introduction to the basic combinatorial tools - such as recurrence relations, generating functions, incidence matrices, and the inclusion-exclusion principle - that will give the reader a flavour of the distinctive characteristics of this attractive and increasingly important branch of mathematics. A studly of block designs is followed by a brief mention of applications to coding theory.
A First Course in Combinatorial Mathematics features in the following genres: Numerical analysis, Combinatorics and graph theory, Applied mathematics, Mathematical theory of computation
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A First Course in Combinatorial Mathematics was written by Ian Anderson and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
A First Course in Combinatorial Mathematics has 134 pages
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