Record Nr.

UNINA9910786640103321

Autore

Vilenkin N. I͡A (Naum I͡Akovlevich)

Titolo

Combinatorics / / N. Ya Villenkin ; translated by A. Shenitzer aned S. Shenitzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa


New York, New York ; ; London, England : , : Academic Press, , 1971
©1971

ISBN

1-4832-6611-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

511.6

511/.6

Soggetti

Combinatorial analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Combinatorics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Russian Edition; Chapter I. General Rules of Combinatorics; Superstitious Cyclists; Samples with Repetitions; Systems of Numeration; Combination Lock; The Morse Code; Signaling at Sea; Electronic Computers; Genetic Code; General Rules of Combinatorics; A Domino Problem; Crew of a Spaceship; A Checkers Problem; How Many People Do Not Know a Foreign Language?; The Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion; Find the Error!; The Sieve of Erastothenes; Chapter II. Samples, Permutations, and Combinations

Soccer TournamentSamples without Repetitions; Learned Society; Permutations; A Rook Problem; Linguistic Problems; Dancing in a Circle; Permutations with Repetitions; Anagrams; Combinations; The Genoa Lottery; Buying Pastry; Combinations with Repetitions; The Soccer Tournament Revisited; Properties of Combinations; Special Case of the Inclusion and Exclusion Formula; Alternating Sums of Combinations; Chapter III. Combinatorial Problems with Restrictions; Lions and Tigers; Construction of a Staircase; A Bookshelf; Knights of the Round Table; A Girl Has a Date; A Telepathic Séance; Derangements

SubfactorialsCaravan in the Desert; On the Merry-Go-Round; Queue at the Box Office; Problem of Two Rows; Additional Properties of Combinations; Chapter IV. Distributions and Partitions; A Domino Game; Putting Things in Boxes; A Bouquet; The Number of Divisors;

Picking Apples; Picking Mushrooms; Sending Photographs; Flags on Masts; Count of All Signals; Various Statistics; Partitions of Numbers; Mailing of Printed Matter; The General Postage Problem; Combinatorial Problems in Information Theory; Problem of the University Applicant; Paying for a Purchase; Purchase of Candy; Getting Change

(Unordered) Partitions of an IntegerUse of Graphs; Dual Graphs; Euler's Formula; Chapter V5. Combinatorics on a Chessboard; Walking in a Town; The Arithmetical Square; Figurate Numbers; Arithmetical Triangle; The Extended Arithmetical Triangle; Chess King; The Generalized Arithmetical Triangle; Generalized Arithmetical Triangles and Numbers to the Base m; Some Properties of the Numbers Cm(k, n); Checker in a Corner; The Arithmetical Pentagon; Geometric Proofs of Properties of Combinations; Random Walk; Brownian Motion; In the Realm of the Tsarina of Shemakhan; An Absorbing Wall

Roaming on an Infinite PlaneThe General Rook Problem; Symmetric Arrangements; Two Knights; Chapter VI. Recurrence Relations; Fibonacci Numbers; Another Method of Proof; Successive Partitions; Multiplication and Division of Numbers; Polygon Problems; The Head Steward Faces a Difficulty; Lucky Bus Ticket Numbers; Recurrent Tables; Another Solution of the Problem of the Chief Steward; Solution of Recurrence Relations; Linear Recurrence Relations with Constant Coefficients; The Case of Equal Roots of the Characteristic Equation

Application of the Theory of Recurrence Relations to Information Theory

Sommario/riassunto

Combinatorics

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00270804

Autore

HANDKE, Peter

Titolo

Einige Anmerkungen zum Da- und zum Dort-Sein : Ehrendoktorat an Peter Handke durch die Universität Salzburg / Peter Handke, Adolf Haslinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Salzburg und Wien, : Jung und Jung, c2004

ISBN

39-02-14474-2

Descrizione fisica

62 p. ; 19 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

HASLINGER, Adolf