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  title info:
    title: Algebraic Combinatorics
    sub title: Walks, Trees, Tableaux, and More
  name:
    name part: Stanley, Richard P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 223 p. online resource.
  abstract: Written by one of the foremost experts in the field, Algebraic Combinatorics is a unique undergraduate textbook that will prepare the next generation of pure and applied mathematicians. The combination of the author’s extensive knowledge of combinatorics and classical and practical tools from algebra will inspire motivated students to delve deeply into the fascinating interplay between algebra and combinatorics. Readers will be able to apply their newfound knowledge to mathematical, engineering, and business models. The text is primarily intended for use in a one-semester advanced undergraduate course in algebraic combinatorics, enumerative combinatorics, or graph theory. Prerequisites include a basic knowledge of linear algebra over a field, existence of finite fields, and rudiments of group theory. The topics in each chapter build on one another and include extensive problem sets as well as hints to selected exercises. Key topics include walks on graphs, cubes and the Radon transform, the Matrix–Tree Theorem, de Bruijn sequences, the Erdős-Moser conjecture, electrical networks, and the Sperner property. There are also three appendices on purely enumerative aspects of combinatorics related to the chapter material: the RSK algorithm, plane partitions, and the enumeration of labeled trees. Richard Stanley is currently professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stanley has received several awards including the George Pólya Prize in applied combinatorics, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Leroy P. Steele Prize for mathematical exposition. Also by the author: Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra, Second Edition, © Birkhäuser.
  table of contents: Preface -- Notation.- 1. Walks in graphs -- 2. Cubes and the Radon transform -- 3. Random walks -- 4. The Sperner property -- 5. Group actions on boolean algebras -- 6. Young diagrams and q-binomial coefficients -- 7. Enumeration under group action -- 8. A glimpse of Young tableaux -- Appendix. The RSK algorithm -- Appendix. Plane partitions -- 9. The Matrix–Tree Theorem -- Appendix. Three elegant combinatorial proofs -- 10. Eulerian diagraphs and oriented trees -- 11. Cycles, bonds, and electrical networks -- 12. Miscellaneous gems of algebraic combinatorics -- Hints -- References.
  note: by Richard P. Stanley.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Combinatorics
  subject:
    topic: Graph theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Combinatorics
  subject:
    topic: Graph Theory
  classification: QA164-167.2
  classification: 511.6
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
  identifier: 9781461469988
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6998-8
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    record creation date: 130618
    record change date: 20151116133145.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-6998-8