{"product_id":"combinatorics-of-permutations-1","title":"Combinatorics of Permutations","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"Outstanding Academic Title,\" the first edition of this bestseller was lauded for its detailed yet engaging treatment of permutations. Providing more than enough material for a one-semester course, \u003ci\u003eCombinatorics of Permutations\u003c\/i\u003e, third edition continues to clearly show the usefulness of this subject for both students and researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe research in combinatorics of permutations has advanced rapidly since this book was published in a first edition. Now the third edition offers not only updated results, it remains the leading textbook for a course on the topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoverage is mostly enumerative, but there are algebraic, analytic, and topological parts as well, and applications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the publication of the second edition, there is tremendous progress in pattern avoidance (Chapters 4 and 5). There is also significant progress in the analytic combinatorics of permutations, which will be incorporated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•A completely new technique from extremal combinatorics disproved a long-standing conjecture, and this is presented in Chapter 4. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•The area of universal permutations has undergone a lot of very recent progress, and that has been noticed outside the academic community as well. This also influenced the revision of Chapter 5.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•New results in stack sorting are added to Chapter 8.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•Chapter 9 applications to biology has been revised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author’s other works include \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Enumerative and Analytic Combinatorics, second edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (CHOICE \"Outstanding Academic Title\") and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHandbook of Enumerative Combinatorics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, published by CRC Press. The author also serves as Series Editor for CRC’s Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232910725464,"sku":"9780367222581","price":137.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367222581_898741e6-9792-4220-944e-6698cadbaa77.jpg?v=1780989345","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/combinatorics-of-permutations-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}