Description
Book SynopsisOffers a gentle introduction to the enumerative part of combinatorics. In addition to covering all the standard techniques for counting combinatorial objects, the text contains material from the research literature such as the use of quotient posets to study the Möbius function and characteristic polynomial of a partially ordered set.
Table of Contents
- Basic counting
- Counting with signs
- Counting with ordinary generating functions
- Counting with exponential generating functions
- Counting with partially ordered sets
- Counting with group actions
- Counting with symmetric functions
- Counting with quasisymmetric functions
- Introduction to representation theory
- Bibliography
- Index.
