Chapter 1: What Is Combinatorics? THE BASIC TOOLS OF COMBINATORICS Chapter 2: Basic Counting Rules
Chapter 3: Introduction to Graph Theory
Chapter 4 Relations
THE COUNTING PROBLEM Chapter 5: Generating Functions and Their Applications
Chapter 6: Recurrence Relations
Chapter 7: The Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion
Chapter 8: The Pólya Theory of Counting
THE EXISTENCE PROBLEM Chapter 9: Combinatorial Designs
Chapter 10: Coding Theory
Chapter 11: Existence Problems in Graph Theory
COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION Chapter 12: Matching and Covering
Chapter 13: Optimization Problems for Graphs and Networks
Appendix: Answers to Selected Exercises
Author Index
Subject Index
References appear at the end of each chapter.
