Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis

This is a text that defines "the number of ways there are of doing some well-defined operation." Various chapters survey the theory of permutations and combinations associated with elementary algebra, generating functions, the principle of inclusion and exclusion, the cycles of permutations, the theory of distributions, partitions, compositions, trees, and linear graphs; and permutations with restricted position. Each chapter includes a problem section. 1958 ed.