Combinatorics by David R Mazur

Combinatorics by David R Mazur

Combinatorics is the mathematics of counting. This text presents the topics covered in undergraduate courses in combinatorics and advanced discrete mathematics, as well as in some introductory graduate courses. Uniquely, it features over 350 reading questions that provide checkpoints for learning and prepare the reader for the end-of-section exercises.

This is a well-written, reader-friendly, and self-contained undergraduate course on combinatorics, focusing on enumerationThe book includes plenty of exercises, and about hal of them come with hints."" - M. Bona, Choice Magazine

""The delineation of the topics is first rate-better than I have ever seen in any other book. Their presentation is generally thorough, with much of it in the form of worked problems. The book is very much designed as a textbook; there are plenty of problems at the end of each section. ... CAGT has both good breadth and great presentation; it is in fact a new standard in presentation for combinatorics, essential as a resource for any instructor, including those teaching out of a different text. For the student: If you are just starting to build a library in combinatorics, this should be your first book."" - The UMAP Journal

""Combinatorics is an excellent candidate for a special topics course for mathematics majors; with the broad spectrum of applications that course can simultaneously be an advanced and a capstone course. This book would be an excellent selection for the textbook of such a course. The explanations are at an appropriate level for the audience and there are exercises at the end of each section...The coverage is also sufficient of breadth; all of the major areas of combinatorics are covered...This book is the best candidate for a textbook in combinatorics that I have encountered."" - Charles Ashbacher

David R. Mazur is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was born on October 23, 1971 in Washington, D.C. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Delaware in 1993, and also won the Department of Mathematical Sciences' William D. Clark prize for 'unusual ability' in the major that year. He then received two fellowships for doctoral study in the Department of Mathematical Sciences (now the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics) at The Johns Hopkins University. From there he received his Master's in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 1999 under the direction of Leslie A. Hall, focusing on operations research, integer programming, and polyhedral combinatorics. His dissertation, 'Integer Programming Approaches to a Multi-Facility Location Problem', won first prize in the 1999 joint United Parcel Service/INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Dissertation Award Competition. The competition occurs once every two years to recognize outstanding dissertations in the field of location analysis. Professor Mazur began teaching at Western New England College in 1999 and received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2005. He was a 2000–2001 Project NExT fellow and continues to serve this program as a consultant. He is an active member of the Mathematical Association of America, having co-organized several sessions at national meetings. He currently serves on the MAA's Membership Committee.

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ISBN 13	9780883857625
ISBN 10	0883857626
Title	Combinatorics
Author	David R Mazur
Series	Maa Textbooks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Mathematical Association of America
Year published	2010-03-18
Number of pages	410
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