Enumerative combinatorics is an area of combinatorics that deals with the number of ways that certain patterns can be formed. Two examples of this type...
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to a partial fragmentation of the field. Enumerative combinatorics is the most classical area of combinatorics and concentrates on counting the number...
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(perhaps arbitrary) ordering. In some contexts, such as enumerative combinatorics, the term enumeration is used more in the sense of counting – with emphasis...
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Power of three (section Enumerative combinatorics)
graph (729 vertices). In enumerative combinatorics, there are 3n signed subsets of a set of n elements. In polyhedral combinatorics, the hypercube and all...
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Catalan number (category Enumerative combinatorics)
many counting problems in combinatorics whose solution is given by the Catalan numbers. The book Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 2 by combinatorialist...
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The Pólya enumeration theorem, also known as the Redfield–Pólya theorem and Pólya counting, is a theorem in combinatorics that both follows from and ultimately...
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around 700 AD. Although China had relatively few advancements in enumerative combinatorics, around 100 AD they solved the Lo Shu Square which is the combinatorial...
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Analytic combinatorics uses techniques from complex analysis to solve problems in enumerative combinatorics, specifically to find asymptotic estimates...
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Double factorial (category Enumerative combinatorics)
surface area of a hypersphere, and they have many applications in enumerative combinatorics. They occur in Student's t-distribution (1908), though Gosset...
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Gessel, Ira M.; Stanley, Richard P. (1995), "Algebraic enumeration", Handbook of combinatorics, Vol. 1, 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 1021–1061, MR 1373677...
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In combinatorics, a k-ary necklace of length n is an equivalence class of n-character strings over an alphabet of size k, taking all rotations as equivalent...
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Polynomial sequences are a topic of interest in enumerative combinatorics and algebraic combinatorics, as well as applied mathematics. Some polynomial...
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Discrete mathematics (section Combinatorics)
with enumerative combinatorics which uses explicit combinatorial formulae and generating functions to describe the results, analytic combinatorics aims...
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Eight queens puzzle (category Enumerative combinatorics)
The 27×27 board is the highest-order board that has been completely enumerated. The following tables give the number of solutions to the n queens problem...
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Superpermutation (category Enumerative combinatorics)
In combinatorial mathematics, a superpermutation on n symbols is a string that contains each permutation of n symbols as a substring. While trivial superpermutations...
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Algebraic combinatorics Analytic combinatorics Arithmetic combinatorics Combinatorics on words Combinatorial design theory Enumerative combinatorics Extremal...
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field of combinatorics and its applications to other mathematical disciplines. Stanley is known for his two-volume book Enumerative Combinatorics (1986–1999)...
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especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics. Percy MacMahon was born in Malta to a British military family...
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MacMahon's master theorem (category Enumerative combinatorics)
In mathematics, MacMahon's master theorem (MMT) is a result in enumerative combinatorics and linear algebra. It was discovered by Percy MacMahon and proved...
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\ |z|<1.} The q-Pochhammer symbol is closely related to the enumerative combinatorics of partitions. The coefficient of q m a n {\displaystyle q^{m}a^{n}}...
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transform of an analytic function MacMahon master theorem (MMT), in enumerative combinatorics and linear algebra Glasser's master theorem in integral calculus...
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Inclusion–exclusion principle (category Enumerative combinatorics)
Barry (2009), Applied Combinatorics (2nd ed.), CRC Press, ISBN 9781420099829 Stanley, Richard P. (1986), Enumerative Combinatorics Volume I, Wadsworth &...
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Noncrossing partition (category Enumerative combinatorics)
In combinatorial mathematics, the topic of noncrossing partitions has assumed some importance because of (among other things) its application to the theory...
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Method of distinguished element (category Combinatorics)
In the mathematical field of enumerative combinatorics, identities are sometimes established by arguments that rely on singling out one "distinguished...
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Combinatorial proof (category Enumerative combinatorics)
Mathematical Association of America. Stanley, Richard P. (1997), Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume I, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 49...
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main fields of research include the combinatorics of permutations, as well as enumerative and analytic combinatorics. Since 2010, he has been one of the...
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Möbius inversion formula (category Enumerative combinatorics)
(1997), Enumerative Combinatorics, vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55309-1 Stanley, Richard P. (1999), Enumerative Combinatorics, vol. 2...
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Cycle index (category Enumerative combinatorics)
Combinatorics (2nd ed.), Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 472–479, ISBN 978-1-4200-9982-9 Tucker, Alan (1995), "9.3 The Cycle Index", Applied Combinatorics...
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Tree (graph theory) (section Enumeration)
book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) Stanley, Richard P. (2012), Enumerative Combinatorics, Vol. I, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 49, Cambridge...
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Lattice path (category Enumerative combinatorics)
(2012). Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume 1 (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-107-60262-5. Stanley, Richard (2001). Enumerative Combinatorics...
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