Applied Combinatorics Author:Alan Tucker Updated with new material, this�Fifth Edition of the most widely used book in combinatorial problems explains how to reason and model combinatorically.� It also stresses the systematic analysis of different possibilities, exploration of the logical structure of a problem, and ingenuity. Combinatorical reasoning underlies all analysis of c... more »omputer systems. It plays a similar role in discrete operations research problems and in finite probability. This book�seeks to develop proficiency in basic discrete math problem solving in the way that a calculus text develops proficiency in basic analysis problem solving.« less