Notes on Counting: An Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. Formal power series; 3. Subsets, partitions and permutations; 4. Recurrence relations; 5. The permanent; 6. q-analogues; 7. Group actions and cycle index; 8. Mobius inversion; 9. The Tutte polynomial; 10. Species; 11. Analytic methods: a first look; 12. Further topics; 13. Bibliography and further directions; Index.