Mathematics of choice, or, How to count without counting

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Author(s): Ivan Morton Niven
Series: New mathematical library #15
Edition: 16th printing
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Year: 1965

Language: English
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Title
Contents
Preface
1. Introductory questions
2. Permutations and combinations
3. Combinations and binomial coefficients
4. Some special distributions
5. The inclusion-exclusion principle; probability
6. Partitions of an integer
7. Generating polynomials
8. Distribution of objects not all alike
9. Configuration problems
10. Mathematical induction
11. Interpretations of a non-associative product
Miscellaneous problems
Answers and solutions
Bibliography
Index