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Discrete Mathematics

Second Edition

Norman L. Biggs

Price: £74.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-850718-5
Publication date: 19 December 2002
440 pages, numerous figures, 245x182 mm

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' A well known definition says that a textbook is a book such that everybody thinks he can write a better one. Biggs' Discrete Mathematics is an exception - not only for its wide range of topics and its clear organization but notably for its excellent style of explanation. ' - EMS

Description

New edition of a best-selling undergraduate textbook
Contains nine new introductory chapters, in addition to updated chapters from the previous edition
Contains over 1000 individual exercises and selected solutions
Companion website www.oup.com/mathematics/discretemath contains hints and solutions to all exercises

Readership: Students and lecturers in mathematics and computer science

Contents

The Language of Mathematics

1. Statements and proofs

2. Set notation

3. The logical framework

4. Natural numbers

5. Functions

6. How to count

7. Integers

8. Divisibility and prime numbers

9. Fractions and real numbers

Techniques

10. Principles of counting

11. Subsets and designs

12. Partition, classification and distribution

13. Modular arithmetic

Algorithms and Graphs

14. Algorithms and their efficiency

15. Graphs

16. Trees, sorting and searching

17. Bipartite graphs and matching problems

18. Digraphs, networks and flows

19. Recursive techniques

Algebraic Methods

20. Groups

21. Groups of permutations

22. Rings, fields and polynomials

23. Finite fields and some applications

24. Error-correcting codes

25. Generating functions

26. Partitions of a positive integer

27. Symmetry and counting

Authors, editors, and contributors

Norman L. Biggs, Professor of Mathematics, London School of Economics, University of London

Links to web resources and related information

Companion web site

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