Recent Trends in Combinatorics
The Legacy of Paul Erdos
Published on 24. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-521-12004-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of surveys and research papers on topics of interest in combinatorics, given at a conference in Matrahaza, Hungary. Originally published in journal form, it is here reissued as a book due to its special interest. It is dedicated to Paul Erdoes, who attended the conference and who is represented by two articles in the collection, including one, unfinished, which he was writing on the eve of his sudden death. Erdoes was one of the greatest mathematicians of his century and often the subject of anecdotes about his somewhat unusual lifestyle. A preface, written by friends and colleagues, gives a flavour of his life, including many such stories, and also describes the broad outline and importance of his work in combinatorics and other related fields. Here is a succinct introduction to important ideas in combinatorics for researchers and graduate students.
Reviews / Votes
Review of the hardback: 'This is a wonderful book in memory of Paul Erdoes. There is also a long introductory paper by Miklos Simonovits and Vera T. Sos about Paul Erdoes. This paper is particularly well written and gives a very good idea about what kind of man and what kind of mathematician Paul Erdoes really was. Without any doubt, these papers belong to the private library of any mathematician in combinatorics.' Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society Review of the hardback: 'This book can be recommended to all those interested in combinatorics and cognate fields.' Niew Archief voor WiskundeMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
382 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-12004-3 (9780521120043)
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Content
Preface; Paul Erdoes: the man and the mathematician (1913-96) Miklos Simonovits and Vera T. Sos; 1. A selection of problems and results in combinatorics Paul Erdoes; 2. Combinatorial Nullstellensatz Noga Alon; 3. Connectedness, classes and cycle index E. A. Bender, P. J. Cameron, A. M. Odlyzko and L. B. Richmond; 4. A Tutte polynomial for coloured graphs Bela Bollobas and Oliver Riordan; 5. Notes on sum-free and related sets Peter J. Cameron and Paul Erdoes; 6. Geometrical bijections in discrete lattices Hans-Georg Carstens, Walter A. Deuber, Wolfgang Thumser and Elke Koppenrade; 7. On random intersection graphs: the subgraph problem Michal Karonski, Edward R. Scheinerman and Karen B. Singer-Cohen; 8. The blow-up lemma Janos Komlos; 9. The homomorphism structure of classes of graphs Jaroslav Nesetril; 10. Problem collection of the DIMANET Matrahaza workshop, 22-28 October 1995.