Foundations of Combinatorics with Applications

 This introduction to combinatorics is suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in engineering, science, and mathematics. Covers basic counting, functions, decision trees, and sieving methods; fundamental concepts in graph theory and a sampler of graph topics; induction and recursion, sorting theory, and rooted plane trees. Numerous exercises (some with solutions), notes, and references. Includes 75 figures. Appendixes.

Title Foundations of Combinatorics with Applications
Author(s) Edward A. Bender and S. Gill Williamson
Publisher: Dover Publications (February 6, 2006)
Paperback 480 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486446034
ISBN-13: 978-0486446035
eBook: http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~ebender/CombText/index.html