Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback
by Robin Wilson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robin WilsonSeries:Very Short IntroductionsPublish date:2016-07-01Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198723493ISBN-10:198723490UPC:9780198723493Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:CombinatoricsSize:6.80 x 4.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCMJQJBKA5
How many possible sudoku puzzles are there? In the lottery, what is the chance that two winning balls have consecutive numbers? Who invented Pascal's triangle? (it was not Pascal) Combinatorics, the branch of mathematics concerned with selecting, arranging, and listing or counting collections of objects, works to answer all these questions. Dating back some 3000 years, and initially consisting...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198723493ISBN-10:198723490UPC:9780198723493Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:CombinatoricsSize:6.80 x 4.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCMJQJBKA5
Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited many books on the history of...
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