Comments on: Combinatorics for the working mathematician http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/combinatorics-for-the-working-mathematician/ always busy counting, doubting every figured guess . . . Fri, 24 May 2013 07:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jon Awbrey http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/combinatorics-for-the-working-mathematician/#comment-8961 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:40:08 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-8961 &ldqup;Generating functions are the 19th Century analog of addressable memory.”

]]> By: How do you solve a problem like the Annals? « Igor Pak's blog http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/combinatorics-for-the-working-mathematician/#comment-6450 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:00:00 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-6450 [...] grew up (mathematically) in a world where the Annals viewed Combinatorics much the same way it viewed Statistics – as a foreign to mathematics fields [...]

]]> By: 2010 in review « Peter Cameron's Blog http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/combinatorics-for-the-working-mathematician/#comment-1792 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:31:30 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-1792 [...] Combinatorics for the working mathematician February 20103 comments 5 [...]

]]> By: Haris Aziz http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/combinatorics-for-the-working-mathematician/#comment-1595 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:45:38 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-1595 A book which surveys useful techniques and tricks of the trade in combinatorics will be most welcome. A book which is similar in spirit but biased towards computer science is ‘Extremal Combinatorics: With Applications in Computer Science’ by Jukna.

]]> By: colinwytan http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/combinatorics-for-the-working-mathematician/#comment-806 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:38:02 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-806 Hi Peter, do write such a book! After I read Gowers comments (which you quoted), I find combinatorics an essential technique in mathematics. Just like analysis and category theory. (I don’t consider algebra a techniqe). I’m been trying to read combinatorics on my own, but generally introductory textbooks talk about the subject as an internal coherent whole.

A book like yours on how it interacts with the rest of mathematics would be very helpful to my technique and the way I view problem solving!

]]> By: Emil http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/combinatorics-for-the-working-mathematician/#comment-127 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:35:07 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-127 I don’t agree that graph theory can’t be done in an arm chair. In fact I do a lot of it while lying in bed!

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