An undergraduate textbook on general combinatorics. A Walk Through Combinatorics

A Walk Through Combinatorics, 2nd edition

Thanks for your interest in my book, A Walk Through Combinatorics! I am honored as the book has been used, or being used at the following Universities. Please let me know if the list is incomplete. The second edition was published at the end of 2006, and is now available from the publisher, or from Amazon.com. Note that Amazon has all three versions, namely the first edition in paperback (42 dollars), the first edition in hardcover (70 dollars), and the 2nd edition in hardcover (88 dollars). Make sure you select the one you want (click "All editions" once you found the book).

This leads us to an interesting point. Yes, currently both the first and second editions are available, as long as supplies last.

Why a Second edition?

I had at least four reasons to write a second edition.
  1. Exercises. Many colleagues said that they wanted more exercises without solutions. This has been done. I added new exercises so that the ratio of exercises with and without solutions is now one to one, instead of two to one in the first edition.
  2. Extra Chapters. I added a chapter on algorithms and one on computational complexity. For many students taking this class, this is the only opportunity to see these exiting topics.
  3. New Results. As the Stanley-Wilf conjecture has recently been solved, Chapter 14 of the first edition became outdated since that chapter claimed that it was open. This has been updated.
  4. Typos. All typos in the first edition that I was aware of have been corrected.

Contents

Read the Foreword by Richard Stanley. Click here for the pdf version.

Here is the errata for the first printing. In 2008, there was a second printing. I am starting up an errata for that now.

Read my own Preface. Click here for the pdf version.

See my acknowledgments.

See the Table of Contents. Note that Chapters 17 and 18 are new.

If you want to read reviews of the first edition, you can do so by accessing the website of that edition.

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