Mathematical Combinatorics

This book is a gentle introduction to the enumerative part of combinatorics suitable for study at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. In addition to covering all the standard techniques for counting combinatorial objects, the text contains material from the research literature which has never before appeared in print, such as the use of quotient posets to study the Möbius function and characteristic polynomial of a partially ordered set, or the connection between quasisymmetric functions and pattern avoidance. The book assumes minimal background, and a first course in abstract algebra should suffice. The exposition is very reader friendly: keeping a moderate pace, using lots of examples, emphasizing recurring themes, and frankly expressing the delight the author takes in mathematics in general and combinatorics in particular.

This book presents methods of solving problems in three areas of elementary combinatorial mathematics: classical combinatorics, combinatorial arithmetic, and combinatorial geometry. Brief theoretical discussions are immediately followed by carefully worked-out examples of increasing degrees of difficulty and by exercises that range from routine to rather challenging. The book features approximately 310 examples and 650 exercises.

The Mathematical Combinatorics (International Book Series) is a fully refereed international book series with ISBN number on each issue, sponsored by the MADIS of Chinese Academy of Sciences and published in USA quarterly comprising 110-160 pages approx. per volume, which publishes original research papers and survey articles in all aspects of Smarandache multi-spaces, Smarandache geometries, mathematical combinatorics, non-euclidean geometry and topology and their applications to other sciences.

The mathematical combinatorics is a subject that applying combinatorial notions to all mathematics and all sciences for understanding the reality of things in the universe, motivated by CC Conjecture of Dr. Linfan MAO on mathematical sciences. The International J. Mathematical Combinatorics (ISSN 1937-1055) is a fully refereed international journal, sponsored by the MADIS of Chinese Academy of Sciences and published in USA quarterly, which publishes original research papers and survey articles in all aspects of mathematical combinatorics, Smarandache multi-spaces, Smarandache geometries, non-Euclidean geometry, topology and their applications to other sciences.

This volume contains a colection of articles on smarandache notions in graph theory, combinatorics.

Papers on Ruled Surfaces in Minkowski 3-Space, Enumeration of k-Fibonacci Paths Using Infinite Weighted Automata, The Natural Lift Curves and Geodesic Curvatures of the Spherical Indicatrices of The Spacelike-Timelike Bertrand Curve Pair, Magic Properties of Special Class of Trees, and other topics. Contributors: V. Ramachandran, C. Sekar, Rodrigo De Castro, Jose L. Ramirez, Nagesh.H.M, R. Chandrasekhar, A. Vijayalekshmi, S. Suganthi, V. Swaminathan, Arunesh Pandey, V.K. Chaubey, T.N. Pandey, and others.

Papers on Magic Graphoidal on Join of Two Graph, An Equation Related to θ-Centralizers in Semiprime Gamma Rings, Further Results on Global Connected Domination Number of Graphs, Total Dominator Colorings in Cycles, and other topics. Contributors: Akinola L. S., Agboola A. A. A., G. Mahadevan, A. Selvam Avadayappan, Twinkle Johns, M. F. Hoque, H. O. Roshid, Teena Liza John, Mathew Varkey T. K., and others.