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Combinatorics : Ancient & Modern.
Who first presented Pascal's triangle? (It was not Pascal.)Who first presented Hamiltonian graphs? (It was not Hamilton.)Who first presented Steiner triple systems? (It was not Steiner.) The history of mathematics is a well-studied and vibrant area of research, with books and scholarly articles...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford Scholarship Online,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Part I: Introduction; Two thousand years of combinatorics; Part II: Ancient Combinatorics; 1. Indian combinatorics; 2. China; 3. Islamic combinatorics; 4. Jewish combinatorics; 5. Renaissance combinatorics; 6. The origins of modern combinatorics; 7. The arithmetical triangle; Part III: Modern Combinatorics; 8. Early graph theory; 9. Partitions; 10. Block designs; 11. Latin squares; 12. Enumeration (18th-20th centuries); 13. Combinatorial set theory; 14. Modern graph theory; Part IV: Aftermath; A personal view of combinatorics; Notes on contributors
- Picture sources and acknowledgementsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z