Proofs that Really Count

Proofs that Really Count
Author: Arthur T. Benjamin
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2022-09-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470472597

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and mathematicians attempt to understand these patterns and discover new ones using a variety of tools. In Proofs That Really Count, award-winning math professors Arthur Benjamin and Jennifer Quinn demonstrate that many number patterns, even very complex ones, can be understood by simple counting arguments. The book emphasizes numbers that are often not thought of as numbers that count: Fibonacci Numbers, Lucas Numbers, Continued Fractions, and Harmonic Numbers, to name a few. Numerous hints and references are given for all chapter exercises and many chapters end with a list of identities in need of combinatorial proof. The extensive appendix of identities will be a valuable resource. This book should appeal to readers of all levels, from high school math students to professional mathematicians.

Proofs that Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof

Proofs that Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof
Author: Arthur T. Benjamin
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2003-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0883853337

Recipient of the Mathematical Association of America's Beckenbach Book Prize in 2006! Mathematics is the science of patterns, and mathematicians attempt to understand these patterns and discover new ones using a variety of tools. In Proofs That Really Count, award-winning math professors Arthur Benjamin and Jennifer Quinn demonstrate that many number patterns, even very complex ones, can be understood by simple counting arguments. The book emphasizes numbers that are often not thought of as numbers that count: Fibonacci Numbers, Lucas Numbers, Continued Fractions, and Harmonic Numbers, to name a few. Numerous hints and references are given for all chapter exercises and many chapters end with a list of identities in need of combinatorial proof. The extensive appendix of identities will be a valuable resource. This book should appeal to readers of all levels, from high school math students to professional mathematicians.

Proofs That Really Count

Proofs That Really Count
Author: Arthur Benjamin
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2003-12-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1614442088

Demonstration of the use of simple counting arguments to describe number patterns; numerous hints and references.

Book of Proof

Book of Proof
Author: Richard H. Hammack
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780989472111

This book is an introduction to the language and standard proof methods of mathematics. It is a bridge from the computational courses (such as calculus or differential equations) that students typically encounter in their first year of college to a more abstract outlook. It lays a foundation for more theoretical courses such as topology, analysis and abstract algebra. Although it may be more meaningful to the student who has had some calculus, there is really no prerequisite other than a measure of mathematical maturity.

Combinatorics: The Art of Counting

Combinatorics: The Art of Counting
Author: Bruce E. Sagan
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470460327

This book is a gentle introduction to the enumerative part of combinatorics suitable for study at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. In addition to covering all the standard techniques for counting combinatorial objects, the text contains material from the research literature which has never before appeared in print, such as the use of quotient posets to study the Möbius function and characteristic polynomial of a partially ordered set, or the connection between quasisymmetric functions and pattern avoidance. The book assumes minimal background, and a first course in abstract algebra should suffice. The exposition is very reader friendly: keeping a moderate pace, using lots of examples, emphasizing recurring themes, and frankly expressing the delight the author takes in mathematics in general and combinatorics in particular.

Proofs from THE BOOK

Proofs from THE BOOK
Author: Martin Aigner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662223430

According to the great mathematician Paul Erdös, God maintains perfect mathematical proofs in The Book. This book presents the authors candidates for such "perfect proofs," those which contain brilliant ideas, clever connections, and wonderful observations, bringing new insight and surprising perspectives to problems from number theory, geometry, analysis, combinatorics, and graph theory. As a result, this book will be fun reading for anyone with an interest in mathematics.

Proofs and Fundamentals

Proofs and Fundamentals
Author: Ethan D. Bloch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461221307

The aim of this book is to help students write mathematics better. Throughout it are large exercise sets well-integrated with the text and varying appropriately from easy to hard. Basic issues are treated, and attention is given to small issues like not placing a mathematical symbol directly after a punctuation mark. And it provides many examples of what students should think and what they should write and how these two are often not the same.

Bijective Combinatorics

Bijective Combinatorics
Author: Nicholas Loehr
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2011-02-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1439848866

Bijective proofs are some of the most elegant and powerful techniques in all of mathematics. Suitable for readers without prior background in algebra or combinatorics, Bijective Combinatorics presents a general introduction to enumerative and algebraic combinatorics that emphasizes bijective methods.The text systematically develops the mathematical

Analytic Combinatorics

Analytic Combinatorics
Author: Philippe Flajolet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 825
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1139477161

Analytic combinatorics aims to enable precise quantitative predictions of the properties of large combinatorial structures. The theory has emerged over recent decades as essential both for the analysis of algorithms and for the study of scientific models in many disciplines, including probability theory, statistical physics, computational biology, and information theory. With a careful combination of symbolic enumeration methods and complex analysis, drawing heavily on generating functions, results of sweeping generality emerge that can be applied in particular to fundamental structures such as permutations, sequences, strings, walks, paths, trees, graphs and maps. This account is the definitive treatment of the topic. The authors give full coverage of the underlying mathematics and a thorough treatment of both classical and modern applications of the theory. The text is complemented with exercises, examples, appendices and notes to aid understanding. The book can be used for an advanced undergraduate or a graduate course, or for self-study.

Inquiry-Based Enumerative Combinatorics

Inquiry-Based Enumerative Combinatorics
Author: T. Kyle Petersen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030183084

This textbook offers the opportunity to create a uniquely engaging combinatorics classroom by embracing Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) techniques. Readers are provided with a carefully chosen progression of theorems to prove and problems to actively solve. Students will feel a sense of accomplishment as their collective inquiry traces a path from the basics to important generating function techniques. Beginning with an exploration of permutations and combinations that culminates in the Binomial Theorem, the text goes on to guide the study of ordinary and exponential generating functions. These tools underpin the in-depth study of Eulerian, Catalan, and Narayana numbers that follows, and a selection of advanced topics that includes applications to probability and number theory. Throughout, the theory unfolds via over 150 carefully selected problems for students to solve, many of which connect to state-of-the-art research. Inquiry-Based Enumerative Combinatorics is ideal for lower-division undergraduate students majoring in math or computer science, as there are no formal mathematics prerequisites. Because it includes many connections to recent research, students of any level who are interested in combinatorics will also find this a valuable resource.