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Active student engagement is key to this classroom-tested combinatorics text, boasting 1200+ carefully designed problems, ten mini-projects, section warm-up problems, and chapter opening problems. The author – an award-winning teacher – writes in a conversational style, keeping the reader in mind on every page. Students will stay motivated through glimpses into current research trends and open problems as well as the history and global origins of the subject. All essential topics are covered, including Ramsey theory, enumerative combinatorics including Stirling…
Promotes discovery, active learning and collaboration with ten mini-projects, warm-up problems in every section, thought-provoking opening chapter problems, and a conversational tone
Allows students to work their way up to the most difficult combinatorics exercises by splitting them up into several smaller problems or addressing a single problem with many steps
Helps students work out the 1200+ problems and familiarize themselves with well-written solutions by including 256 hints, 181 short answers and 142 complete solutions in the back of the book
Includes 'Open Problems and Conjectures' sections that invite the students to explore cutting-edge research in the field
Emphasizes the global origins of combinatorics with historical asides and alternative naming of some familiar mathematical objects
Serves as a text for a one-semester upper-undergraduate course
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Author
Shahriar Shahriari,Pomona College, California
Shahriar Shahriari is Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. He has over fifty publications in mathematics including two books: Approximately Calculus (AMS 2006) and Algebra in Action: A Course in Groups, Rings, and Fields (AMS 2017). His book Approximately Calculus was chosen as an American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2007, and he won the Mathematical Association of America's Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for expository writing in 1998. Shahriari was awarded the Mathematical Association of America's Haimo National Teaching award in 2015, the Southern California-Nevada Section of the Mathematics Association of America's Teaching Award in 2014, and Pomona College's collegewide student-voted Wig Distinguished Teacher award five different times.