[eBook Code] Mathematics for Informatics and Computer Science (eBook Code, 1st)

General Introduction xxiii

Chapter 1. Some Historical Elements 1

PART 1. COMBINATORICS 17

Part 1. Introduction 19

Chapter 2. Arrangements and Combinations 21

Chapter 3. Enumerations in Alphabetical Order 43

Chapter 4. Enumeration by Tree Structures 63

Chapter 5. Languages, Generating Functions and Recurrences 85

Chapter 6. Routes in a Square Grid 105

Chapter 7. Arrangements and Combinations with Repetitions 119

Chapter 8. Sieve Formula 137

Chapter 9. Mountain Ranges or Parenthesis Words: Catalan Numbers 165

Chapter 10. Other Mountain Ranges 197

Chapter 11. Some Applications of Catalan Numbers and Parenthesis Words 215

Chapter 12. Burnside’s Formula 227

Chapter 13. Matrices and Circulation on a Graph 253

Chapter 14. Parts and Partitions of a Set 275

Chapter 15. Partitions of a Number 289

Chapter 16. Flags 305

Chapter 17. Walls and Stacks 315

Chapter 18. Tiling of Rectangular Surfaces using Simple Shapes 331

Chapter 19. Permutations 345

PART 2. PROBABILITY 387

Part 2. Introduction 389

Chapter 20. Reminders about Discrete Probabilities 395

Chapter 21. Chance and the Computer 427

Chapter 22. Discrete and Continuous 447

Chapter 23. Generating Function Associated with a Discrete Random Variable in a Game 469

Chapter 24. Graphs and Matrices for Dealing with Probability Problems 497

Chapter 25. Repeated Games of Heads or Tails 509

Chapter 26. Random Routes on a Graph 535

Chapter 27. Repetitive Draws until the Outcome of a Certain Pattern 565

Chapter 28. Probability Exercises 597

PART 3. GRAPHS 637

Part 3. Introduction 639

Chapter 29. Graphs and Routes 643

Chapter 30. Explorations in Graphs 661

Chapter 31. Trees with Numbered Nodes, Cayley’s Theorem and Prüfer Code 705

Chapter 32. Binary Trees 723

Chapter 33. Weighted Graphs: Shortest Paths and Minimum Spanning Tree 737

Chapter 34. Eulerian Paths and Cycles, Spanning Trees of a Graph 759

Chapter 35. Enumeration of Spanning Trees of an Undirected Graph 779

Chapter 36. Enumeration of Eulerian Paths in Undirected Graphs 799

Chapter 37. Hamiltonian Paths and Circuits 835

APPENDICES 867

Appendix 1. Matrices 869

Appendix 2. Determinants and Route Combinatorics 885

Bibliography 907

Index 911