Concept information
Preferred term
combinatorics
Definition
- Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from logic to statistical physics and from evolutionary biology to computer science.
(Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- algebraic combinatorics
- Bell number
- Bernoulli number
- binomial coefficient
- combination
- Euler number
- factorial
- finite geometry
- generating function
- hyperfactorial
- integer partition
- Langford sequence
- Legendre polynomial
- Levi graph
- Lieb's square ice constant
- Lubell-Yamamoto-Meshalkin inequality
- Motzkin number
- partial permutation
- permutation
- q-analog
- Schur's theorem
- umbral calculus
- union-closed sets conjecture
- Vandermonde's identity
- Wilf-Zeilberger pair
- Young-Fibonacci lattice
In other languages
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French
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analyse combinatoire
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/PSR-B373Q2P1-V