Isbn: 0387955135
Sales Rank: 533086
Subjects:  1. Combinatorics    2. Infinity    3. Juggling    4. Mathematics    5. Mathematics (General)    6. Number Theory    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Sequences (Mathematics)    9. Topology - General   

Reviews (3)

Fantastic!
Everyone wants to know what mathematicians do should read this book. Yes, only very few among people can get familiar or endure gorgeous complicated formulas here, But even scan or skim this book one will learn much morethan he predicted. The goal of this book is simple enough: To prove aconjecture (surely when proved, it becomes a theorem) But the structure anddetails are well selected and carefully designed. First it introduces andexplains the original problem, than talk about it's history, how it doesconnect with other branches of math, what these branches is about, and whatthe other mathematicians do on this conjecture, and at last the mostexciting: how these results all bringed together and then solve this20-year-long famous conjecture in combinatorics. There are exercises afterevery chapter. so this is NOT merely a history survey (as most books do).Indeed it is a textbook and contains some very excellent introductions tosome branches(for example, plane partition). And I think this is THEcorrect style to populating mathematics--- Do not afraid of formulas, justshow readers the signs, the terrible formulas, show them how and whatmathematicians study and think! Every student major in mathematics shouldread it, and it surely is a must-have for reseachers in combinatorics.

Amazing book on how mathematical research is done
This book tells the story of one of the moreimportant areas of research in algebraic combinatorics in the last few years.Not only does it tell the story of how the relevant conjectures were proposed, and how they wereeventually proved (including some of the blind alleys and several caseswhere surprising connections were discovered), but it also contains abeautiful exposition of the relevant mathematics, at a level which a readerwith no more than a reasonable background in linear algebra can follow. The history is fascinating and the mathematics is beautiful.If you wantto know what research in mathematics is really like, this is the book toread.

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Searching for the book vs. the disk?
The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is available in three formats.Sellers often incorrectly match the ISBN to the format.It may be helpful to know the ISBN, rather than to rely on the results of a search by Title/Author.

Hardcover Book: ISBN 0125586302
Macintosh Disk:ISBN 0125586310
MSDOS/IBM Disk:ISBN 0125586329

Also, use the price as a clue to which item you will be receiving - the book sells for $70+, the disk for under $20.

Searching for the book vs. the disk?
The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is available in three formats.Sellers often incorrectly match the ISBN to the format.It may be helpful to know the ISBN, rather than to rely on the results of a search using Title/Author.

Hardcover Book: ISBN 0125586302
Macintosh Disk:ISBN 0125586310
MSDOS/IBM Disk:ISBN 0125586329

Also, use the price as a clue to which item you will be receiving - the book sells for [$]+, the disk for under [$].

This is a data disk, not the book
This product is not the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences as it is portrayed here on Amazon; it is instead an almost useless data disk.The integer sequences are there all right, in lexicograhic order;but they are completely unidentified (except for a code number keyed to the book)!In other words, without the book this very expensive diskette is useless.