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IN this little book Major P. A. MacMahon has given a short introduction to his two volumes on combinatory analysis which were published in 1915–16. The theories of combination, permu tation, arrangement, order, and distribution which are dealt with in those volumes present technical difficulties; it is, therefore, a great advantage that such an introduction should exist, for the gradual development of the subject by easy stages will prove interesting to the reader and whet his appetite for the larger tomes which await him.
An Introduction to Combinatory Analysis.
By Major P. A. MacMahon. Pp. viii + 71. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1920.) 7s. 6d. net.
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WRINCH, D. An Introduction to Combinatory Analysis . Nature 107, 357–358 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107357b0
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