Download or read book Foundations of Combinatorics with Applications written by Edward A. Bender and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to combinatorics is suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in engineering, science, and mathematics. Covers basic counting, functions, decision trees, and sieving methods; fundamental concepts in graph theory and a sampler of graph topics; induction and recursion, sorting theory, and rooted plane trees. Numerous exercises (some with solutions), notes, and references. Includes 75 figures. Appendixes.