Introductory Combinatorics (5th Edition)

Appropriate for one- or two-semester junior- to senior-level combinatorics courses. This trusted best-seller covers the key combinatorial ideasincluding the pigeon-hole principle counting techniques permutations and combinations Plya 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.