Math 481 - Reference Materials


A Walk Through Combinatorics, 4th ed, Miklos Bona, World Scientific, 2017, ISBN13: 978-9-8131-4885-7
An electronic copy of the text is freely available here.
Generatingfunctionology, 3rd ed, Herbert S. Wilf, Boston: Academic Press, 2016, ISBN13: 978-1-5688-1279-3
An electronic copy of the 2nd edition is freely available here.
Enumerative Combinatorics I, 2nd ed., Richard Stanley, Cambridge 2012, ISBN13: 978-1-107-01542-5
An electronic copy is freely available here.
Combinatorics and Graph Theory, 2nd ed., John M. Harris, Jeffry L. Hirst, Michael J. Mossinghoff, Springer 2008
An electronic copy is freely available to MSU students here. I will refer to this text as the HHM text in class.
Domino and square tilings interpretation of the Fibonacci numbers are briefly explained here.

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