Outline of combinatorics
Overview of and topical guide to combinatorics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of finite or countable discrete structures.
Essence of combinatorics
Branches of combinatorics
- Algebraic combinatorics
- Analytic combinatorics
- Arithmetic combinatorics
- Combinatorics on words
- Combinatorial design theory
- Enumerative combinatorics
- Extremal combinatorics
- Geometric combinatorics
- Graph theory
- Infinitary combinatorics
- Matroid theory
- Order theory
- Partition theory
- Probabilistic combinatorics
- Topological combinatorics
Multi-disciplinary fields that include combinatorics
History of combinatorics
General combinatorial principles and methods
- Combinatorial principles
- Trial and error, brute-force search, bogosort, British Museum algorithm
- Pigeonhole principle
- Method of distinguished element
- Mathematical induction
- Recurrence relation, telescoping series
- Generating functions as an application of formal power series
- Binomial coefficients and their properties
- Combinatorial proof
- Inclusion–exclusion principle
- Möbius inversion formula
- Parity, even and odd permutations
- Combinatorial Nullstellensatz
- Incidence algebra
- Greedy algorithm
- Divide and conquer algorithm
- Dynamic programming
- Branch and bound
- Birthday attack, birthday paradox
- Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm
- Reduction to linear algebra
- Sparsity
- Weight function
- Minimax algorithm
- Probabilistic method
- Sieve methods
- Analytic combinatorics
- Symbolic combinatorics
- Combinatorial class
- Exponential formula
- Twelvefold way
- MacMahon Master theorem
Data structure concepts
Problem solving as an art
Living with large numbers
- Names of large numbers, long scale
- History of large numbers
- Graham's number
- Moser's number
- Skewes' number
- Large number notations
- Large number effects
Persons influential in the field of combinatorics
- Noga Alon
- George Andrews
- József Beck
- Eric Temple Bell
- Claude Berge
- Béla Bollobás
- Peter Cameron
- Louis Comtet
- John Horton Conway
- Persi Diaconis
- Ada Dietz
- Paul Erdős
- Philippe Flajolet
- Solomon Golomb
- Ron Graham
- Ben Green
- Tim Gowers
- Jeff Kahn
- Gil Kalai
- Gyula O. H. Katona
- Daniel J. Kleitman
- Imre Leader
- László Lovász
- Fedor Petrov
- George Pólya
- Vojtěch Rödl
- Gian-Carlo Rota
- Cecil C. Rousseau
- H. J. Ryser
- Dick Schelp
- Vera T. Sós
- Joel Spencer
- Emanuel Sperner
- Richard P. Stanley
- Benny Sudakov
- Endre Szemerédi
- Terence Tao
- Carsten Thomassen
- Jacques Touchard
- Pál Turán
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
- Herbert Wilf
- Richard Wilson
- Doron Zeilberger
Combinatorics scholars
Journals
- Advances in Combinatorics
- Annals of Combinatorics
- Ars Combinatoria
- Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
- Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications
- Combinatorica
- Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
- Computational Complexity
- Designs, Codes and Cryptography
- Discrete Analysis
- Discrete & Computational Geometry
- Discrete Applied Mathematics
- Discrete Mathematics
- Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
- Discrete Optimization
- Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory
- Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
- European Journal of Combinatorics
- The Fibonacci Quarterly
- Finite Fields and Their Applications
- Geombinatorics
- Graphs and Combinatorics
- Integers, Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory
- Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
- Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics
- Journal of Combinatorial Designs
- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
- Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
- Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
- Journal of Complexity
- Journal of Cryptology
- Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
- Journal of Graph Theory
- Journal of Integer Sequences (Electronic)
- Journal of Mathematical Chemistry
- Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics
- Optimization Methods and Software
- The Ramanujan Journal
- Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire
- SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Prizes
See also
References
External links
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