Generatingfunctionology
by Herbert S. Wilf
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This is the Second Edition of the highly successful introduction to the use of generating functions and series in combinatorial mathematics. This new edition includes several new areas of application, including the cycle index of the symmetric group, permutations and square roots, counting polyominoes, and exact covering sequences. An appendix on using the computer algebra programs Maple and Mathematica to generate functions is also included. The book provides a clear, unified introduction show more to the basic enumerative applications of generating functions, and includes exercises and solutions, many new, at the end of each chapter. show lessTags
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- A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)9. Take f(u) = (1 + u)^k and Φ(u) = (1 + u)^2 in the LIF.
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