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Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) This second volume of a two-volume basic introduction to enumerative combinatorics covers the composition of generating functions, trees, algebraic generating functions, D-finite generating functions, noncommutative generating functions, and symmetric functions. The chapter on symmetric functions provides the only available treatment of this subject suitable for an introductory graduate course on combinatorics, and includes the important Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm. Also covered are connections between symmetric functions and…
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4 editions- Hardcover · English · 1999Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume 2Cambridge University Press · 594 pages · 9780521560696
- Other · English · 2011Cambridge University Press · 626 pages · 9781107015425
- Other · English · 1997Cambridge University Press · 9780521553094
- Other · English · 1900Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Advanced Books & Software · 306 pages · 9780534065461
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