Over the past decade, many major advances have been made in the field of graph colouring via the probabilistic method. This monograph provides an accessible and

Praise for the Third Edition “Researchers of any kind of extremal combinatorics or theoretical computer science will welcome the new edition of this book.”

Over the past decade, many major advances have been made in the field of graph colouring via the probabilistic method. This monograph provides an accessible and

The book gives an accessible account of modern pro- babilistic methods for analyzing combinatorial structures and algorithms. Each topic is approached in a dida

This update of the 1987 title of the same name is an examination of what is currently known about the probabilistic method, written by one of its principal deve