Discrete mathematics

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) was introduced in 1957 by Koopmans and Beckmann to model a plant location problem.

A series of workshops devoted to modern cryptography beganin Santa Barbara,California in 1981 and was followed in1982 by a European counterpart in Burg Feuerstein, Germany.

Many of the best researchers and writers in discrete mathematics come together in a volume inspired by Ron Graham.

Compressible Flow with Application to Shocks and Propulsion is part of the series "e;Mathematics and Physics for Science and Technology"e;, which combines rigorous mathematics with general physical principles to model practical engineering systems with a detailed derivation and interpretation of results.

This volume presents a collection of papers on game theory dedicated to Michael Maschler.

This book LNCS15828 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science-Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (IJTCS-FAW 2025), consisting of the 19th International Conference on Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (FAW) and the 6th International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (IJTCS), held in Paris, France, during June 30–July 2, 2025.

This title is the result of a one-week workshop sponsored by the Swedish research agency, FRN, on the interface between complexity and art.

Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition covers the basics: relations, functions, orderings, finite, countable, and uncountable sets, and cardinal and ordinal numbers.

Illustrating the power of algorithms, Algorithmic Cryptanalysis describes algorithmic methods with cryptographically relevant examples.

Ruskeepaa gives a general introduction to the most recent versions of Mathematica, the symbolic computation software from Wolfram.

An up-to-date, panoramic account of the theory of random walks on groups and graphs, outlining connections with various mathematical fields.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks, WAW 2025, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, during June 30–July 3, 2025.

This book provides a complete round-up of developments concerned with the application of partial moments in system identification and data-driven modelling; it captures the essence of work carried out at the Laboratoire d'Informatique et d'Automatique pour les Systemes for more than 40 years.

Industrial, financial, commercial or any kinds of project have at least one common feature: the better organized they are, the higher the profit or the lower the cost.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th InternationalConference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2019, held in Berkeley, CA, USA, in May 2019.

This monograph on strongly regular graphs is an invaluable reference for anybody working in algebraic combinatorics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2019, held in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in May 2019.

This three-volume set, LNCS 13421, 13422 and 13423, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2022, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2022.

Introduction to Chemical Graph Theory is a concise introduction to the main topics and techniques in chemical graph theory, specifically the theory of topological indices.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2019, held in Bejing, China in August 2019.

As the demand for data reliability increases, coding for error control becomes increasingly important in data transmission systems and has become an integral part of almost all data communication system designs.

Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition covers the basics: relations, functions, orderings, finite, countable, and uncountable sets, and cardinal and ordinal numbers.

Financial Mathematics for Actuarial Science: The Theory of Interest is concerned with the measurement of interest and the various ways interest affects what is often called the time value of money (TVM).

Introduction to the Theory of Optimization in Euclidean Space is intended to provide students with a robust introduction to optimization in Euclidean space, demonstrating the theoretical aspects of the subject whilst also providing clear proofs and applications.

The notion of proof is central to mathematics yet it is one of the most difficult aspects of the subject to teach and master.

This book serves as a core text in discrete mathematics.

Conveying ideas in a user-friendly style, this book has been designed for a course in Applied Algebra.

Transition to Real Analysis with Proof provides undergraduate students with an introduction to analysis including an introduction to proof.

With the advent of data-intensive applications, the elimination of redundancy in disseminated information has become a serious challenge for researchers who are on the lookout for evolving metaheuristic algorithms which can explore and exploit the information feature space to derive the optimal settings for specific applications.

A self-contained introduction to the theory of graph spectra including exercises and an extensive bibliography.

This book is a tribute to Paul Erdos, the wandering mathematician once described as the "e;prince of problem solvers and the absolute monarch of problem posers.

Graph theory is very much tied to the geometric properties of optimization and combinatorial optimization.

A self-contained introduction to discrete harmonic analysis with an emphasis on the Discrete and Fast Fourier Transforms.

Representation Theory of Symmetric Groups is the most up-to-date abstract algebra book on the subject of symmetric groups and representation theory.

Commutation Relations, Normal Ordering, and Stirling Numbers provides an introduction to the combinatorial aspects of normal ordering in the Weyl algebra and some of its close relatives.

Taking an approach to the subject that is suitable for a broad readership, Discrete Mathematics: Proofs, Structures, and Applications, Third Edition provides a rigorous yet accessible exposition of discrete mathematics, including the core mathematical foundation of computer science.

An update of the most accessible introductory number theory text available, Fundamental Number Theory with Applications, Second Edition presents a mathematically rigorous yet easy-to-follow treatment of the fundamentals and applications of the subject.

Written for graduate students in mathematics or non-specialist mathematicians who wish to learn the basics about some of the most important current research in the field, this book provides an intensive, yet accessible, introduction to the subject of algebraic combinatorics.

This book is intended as a text for a course on cryptography with emphasis on algebraic methods.

This book presents a coherent and unified account of classical and more advanced techniques for analyzing the performance of randomized algorithms.

This book features carefully selected research papers presented during the 9th International Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Modelling in the Digital Era (ICDMMMDE-2023).

Classical and Fuzzy Concepts in Mathematical Logic and Applications provides a broad, thorough coverage of the fundamentals of two-valued logic, multivalued logic, and fuzzy logic.

Understanding Interaction is a book that explores the interaction between people and technology, in the broader context of the relations between the human made and the natural environments.

by Gian-Carlo Rota The subjects of mathematics, like the subjects of mankind, have finite lifespans, which the historian will record as he freezes history at one instant of time.

This book is the very first one in the English language entirely dedicated to the Lambert W function, its generalizations, and its applications.