Combinatorial theory. Reprint of the 2nd ed. (English) Zbl 0907.05002

Hall, Marshall jun.

Wiley Classics Library. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. xviii, 440 p. (1998).

Paperback edition of the second edition published first in the Discrete Mathematics Series in 1986. For a review of that book see Zbl 0588.05001, for a review of the first edition (1967) see Zbl 0196.02401.

MSC:

05-02	Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to combinatorics
05-01	Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to combinatorics
05Bxx	Designs and configurations
05Axx	Enumerative combinatorics

Keywords:

permutations; combinations; inverse formulae; generating functions; recursions; partitions; Ramsey’s theorem; extremal problems; convex spaces; linear programming; de Bruijn sequences; difference sets; finite geometries; Latin squares; Hadamard matrices; block designs; coding; permanents; van der Waerden conjecture