Introductory Combinatorics (5th Edition) 5th Edition by Richard A. Brualdi (PDF)

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Appropriate for one- or two-semester, junior- to senior-level combinatorics courses. This trusted best-seller covers the key combinatorial ideas–including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Pólya counting, binomial coefficients, inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions and recurrence relations, combinatortial structures (matchings, designs, graphs), and flows in networks. The Fifth Edition incorporates feedback from users to the exposition throughout and adds a wealth of new exercises.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Richard A. Brualdi is Bascom Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics from 1993-1999. His research interests lie in matrix theory and combinatorics/graph theory. Professor Brualdi is the author or co-author of six books, and has published extensively. He is one of the editors-in-chief of the journal “Linear Algebra and its Applications” and of the journal “Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.” He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the International Linear Algebra Society, and the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications. He is also a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐At least some of the reviews on this page are for previous versions of the text. The fifth edition had few errors or ambiguities. The range of topics is pretty standard and the difficulty steadily ramps up through the book. If you’re not buying it for a class, it will be an okay introduction or review, but many of the exercises don’t have solutions or hints in the back which might be frustrating for some computational exercises.

⭐My son got this 35 hours after ordering it! Very impressed since he waited until last minute to let me know he needed it. Just in time to complete an assignment and get it turned in. He is glad he bought the book instead of renting because he thinks he will use it after he is finished with the class as a reference book.

⭐This book is quite possibly the worst textbook I have ever used in my entire academic career. The layout is simply atrocious, with little to no care as to how easily the information comes across, with key ideas being buried in a page of text. The descriptions of derivations and conclusions are equally as bad, and I found myself looking up a youtube video that could explain a topic in 5 minutes as opposed to wasting a ton of time trying to understand what they were talking about in the book. This is extremely unfortunate because the information covered in the book is difficult to find in one central location online.

⭐The author does a decent job explaining combinatorics, but his exercise questions are very vague. This causes problems when trying to do the homework for my class. If you need this book for a class make sure to start the homework early so you can ask your professor for clarification.*I have only read the first 3 chapters

⭐I would not recommend learning from this book. The exposition is very confusing, the exercises contain many mistakes, and the layout is simply painful. I strongly dislike this book.

⭐Above & beyond my expectations for the quality of the book. Thank you!

⭐great book

⭐A good book for combinatorics. It is very dense in words but it is straightforward with the concepts and applications.

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