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1 Discrete Mathematics 263 (2003) Book announcements Sukumar Das Adhikari ASPECTS OF COMBINATORICS AND COMBINATORIAL NUMBER THEORY CRC Press, Florida, 2002, 156pp. Notations and Terminologies Chapter 1: Classical Ramsey-Type Theorems Chapter 2: Van Der Waerden Revisited Chapter 3: Generalizations of Schur s Theorem Chapter 4: Topological Methods Chapter 5: Euclidean Ramsey Theory Chapter 6: Additive Number Theory and Related Questions Chapter 7: Partitions of Integers Chapter 8: Ramsey-Type Results in Posets Solutions to Selected Exercises Charalambos A. Charalambides ENUMERATIVE COMBINATORICS Chapman & Hall/CRC, New York, 2002, 609pp. Chapter 1: Basic Counting Principles Chapter 2: Permutations and Combinations Chapter 3: Factorials, Binomial and Multinomial Coecients Chapter 4: The Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion Chapter 5: Permutations with Fixed Points and Successions Chapter 6: Generating Functions Chapter 7: Recurrence Relations Chapter 8: Stirling Numbers X/03/$ - see front matter doi: /s x(03)

2 348 Book announcements / Discrete Mathematics 263 (2003) Chapter 9: Distributions and Occupancy Chapter 10: Partitions of Integers Chapter 11: Partition Polynomials Chapter 12: Cycles of Permutations Chapter 13: Equivalence Classes Chapter 14: Runs of Permutations and Eulerian Numbers Hints and Answers to Excercises Svante Janson, Tomasz Luczak, Andrzej Rucinski RANDOM GRAPHS John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000, 333pp. Chapter 1: Preliminaries Chapter 2: Exponentially Small Probabilities Chapter 3: Small Subgraphs Chapter 4: Matchings Chapter 5: The Phase Transition Chapter 6: Asymptotic Distributions Chapter 7: The Chromatic Number Chapter 8: Extremal and Ramsey Properties Chapter 9: Random Regular Graphs Chapter 10: Zero-One Laws of Notation Mohamed A. Khamsi, William A. Kirk AN INTRODUCTION TO METRIC SPACES AND FIXED POINT THEORY John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 2001, 302pp. I. Metric Spaces Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Metric Spaces Chapter 3: Metric Contraction Principles Chapter 4: Hyperconvex Spaces Chapter 5: Normal Structures in Metric Spaces

3 Book announcements / Discrete Mathematics 263 (2003) II. Banach Spaces Chapter 6: Banach Spaces: An Introduction Chapter 7: Continuous Mappings in Banach Spaces Chapter 8: Metric Fixed Point Theory Chapter 9: Banach Space Ultrapowers Appendix: Set Theory M. Lothaire ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS ON WORDS Cambridge University Press, 2002, 504pp. Chapter 1: Finite and Innite Words Chapter 2: Sturmian Words Chapter 3: Unavoidable Patterns Chapter 4: Sesquipowers Chapter 5: The Plastic Monoid Chapter 6: Codes Chapter 7: Numeration Systems Chapter 8: Periodicity Chapter 9: Centralizers of Noncommutative Series and Polynomials Chapter 10: Transformations on Words and q-calculus Chapter 11: Statistics on Permutations and Words Chapter 12: Makanin s Algorithm Chapter 13: Independent Sets of Equations of Notation General Douglas R. Stinson CRYPTOGRAPHY: THEORY AND PRACTICE Chapman & Hall=CRC, Florida, 2002, 360pp. Chapter 1: Cryptography Chapter 2: Shannon s Theory Chapter 3: Block Ciphers and the Advanced Encryption Standard Chapter 4: Cryptographic Hash Functions Chapter 5: The RSA Cryptosystem and Factoring Integers

4 350 Book announcements / Discrete Mathematics 263 (2003) Chapter 6: Public-Key Cryptography Based on the Discrete Logarithm Problem Chapter 7: Signature Schemes Cryptosystem Algorithms Problem W.D. Wallis MAGIC GRAPHS Birkhauser, Boston, MA, 2001, 146pp. Table of contents List of Figures 1. Preliminaries 1.1. Magic 1.2. Graphs 1.3. Labelings 1.4. Magic labeling 1.5. Some applications of magic labelings 2. Edge-Magic Total Labelings 2.1. Basic ideas 2.2. Graphs with no edge-magic total labeling 2.3. Cliques and complete graphs 2.4. Cycles 2.5. Complete bipartite graphs 2.6. Wheels 2.7. Trees 2.8. Disconnected graphs 2.9. Strong edge-magic total labelings Edge-magic injections 3. Vertex-Magic Total Labelings 3.1. Basic ideas 3.2. Regular graphs 3.3. Cycles and paths 3.4. Vertex-magic total labelings of wheels 3.5. Vertex-magic total labelings of complete bipartite graphs 3.6. Graphs with vertices of degree one 3.7. The complete graphs 3.8. Disconnected graphs 3.9. Vertex-magic injections

5 Book announcements / Discrete Mathematics 263 (2003) Totally Magic Labelings 4.1. Basic ideas 4.2. Isolates and stars 4.3. Forbidden congurations 4.4. Unions of triangles 4.5. Small graphs 4.6. Totally magic injections Notes on the Research Problems Answers to Selected Exercises David S. Watkins FUNDAMENTALS OF MATRIX COMPUTATIONS, 2ND EDITION Wiley Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2002, 618pp. Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Gaussian Elimination and Its Variants Chapter 2: Sensitivity of Linear Systems Chapter 3: The Least Squares Problem Chapter 4: The Singular Value Decomposition Chapter 5: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors I Chapter 6: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors II Chapter 7: Iterative Methods for Linear Systems Appendix: Some Sources of Software for Matrix Computations of MATLAB Terms Douglas B. West INTRODUCTION TO GRAPH THEORY Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001, 588pp. Chapter 1: Fundamental Concepts 1.1. What is a Graph? 1.2. Paths, Cycles, and Trails 1.3. Vertex Degrees and Counting 1.4. Directed Graphs

6 352 Book announcements / Discrete Mathematics 263 (2003) Chapter 2: Chapter 3: Chapter 4: Chapter 5: Chapter 6: Chapter 7: Chapter 8: Trees and Distance 2.1. Basic Properties 2.2. Spanning Trees and Enumeration 2.3. Optimization of Trees Matchings and Factors 3.1. Matchings and Covers 3.2. Algorithms and Applications 3.3. Matchings in General Graphs Connectivity and Paths 4.1. Cuts and Connectivity 4.2. k-connected Graphs 4.3. Network Flow Problems Coloring of Graphs 5.1. Vertex Colorings and Upper Bounds 5.2. Structure of k-chromatic Graphs 5.3. Enumerative Aspects Planar Graphs 6.1. Embeddings and Euler s Formula 6.2. Characterization of Planar Graphs 6.3. Parameters of Planarity Edges and Cycles 7.1. Line Graphs and Edge-coloring 7.2. Hamiltonian Cycles 7.3. Planarity, Coloring, and Cycles Additional Topics (optional) 8.1. Perfect Graphs 8.2. Matroids 8.3. Ramsey Theory 8.4. More Extremal Problems 8.5. Random Graphs 8.6. Eigenvalues of Graphs Appendix A: Mathematical Background Appendix B: Optimization and Complexity Appendix C: Hints for Selected Exercises Appendix D: Glossary of Terms Appendix E: Supplemental Readings Appendix F: Author Subject

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