The purpose
of this note is to give students a broad exposure to combinatorial mathematics,
using applications to emphasize fundamental concepts and techniques. Topics
covered includes: Introduction to Combinatorics, Strings, Sets, and Binomial
Coefficients, Induction, Combinatorial Basics, Graph Theory, Partially Ordered
Sets, Generating Functions, Recurrence Equations , Probability, Applying
Probability to Combinatorics, Combinatorial Applications of Network Flows,
Polya’s Enumeration Theorem.
Author(s): Mitchel T. Keller and William T. Trotter
This note
describes the following topics: generating functions, Integer partitions and q binomial coefficients,
Permutations, Alternating sums, signed counting and determinants.
This note describes
Elementary enumeration principles, Properties of binomial coefficients,
combinatorial identities, The principle of inclusion and exclusion,
Enumeration by means of recursions, The pigeon hole principle, Potential
functions and invariants, Some concepts in graph theory and various.
This book describes
the following topics: The Derangements Problem, Binomial coefficients,
Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion, Rook Polynomials, Recurrences and
asymptotics, Convolutions and the Catalan Numbers, Exponential generating
functions, Ramsey Theory, Lovasz Local Lemma.
This PDF book
Combinatorics of Centers of 0-Hecke Algebrasin Type A covers the following
topics related to Combinatorics : Introduction, Preliminaries, Coxeter
groups, The symmetric group, Combinatorics, enters of 0-Hecke algebras,
Elements in stair form, Equivalence classes, etc.
Combinatotics is about counting without really counting
all possible cases one by one. This PDF covers the following topics related
to Combinatorics : Introduction, The Pigeonhole Principle, The Principle of
Extremals, The Principle of Invariants, Permutations and Combinations,
Combinations with Repetition, Inclusion–Exclusion principle, Recurrence
Relations, Generating Functions, Partitions of Natural Numbers.
Author(s): Stefanos Aretakis, University of
Toronto, Scarborough
The contents
of this book include: 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.
The contents
of this book include: Selections and arrangements, Power series, Recurrence
relations, Partitions and permutations, The Principle of Inclusion and
Exclusion, Families of sets, Systems of distinct representatives, Latin
squares, Steiner triple systems.
This lecture note covers the
following topics: What is Combinatorics, Permutations and Combinations,
Inclusion-Exclusion-Principle and Mobius Inversion, Generating Functions,
Partitions, Partially Ordered Sets and Designs.