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The formal study of combinatorics dates at least to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Dissertatio de Arte Combinatoria in the seventeenth century. The last half-century, however, has seen a huge growth in the subject, fueled by problems and applications from many fields of study.
[Combinatorics] has emerged as a new subject standing at the crossroads between pure and applied mathematics, the center of bustling activity, a simmering pot of new problems and exciting speculations.
– Gian-Carlo Rota, [243, p. vii]
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Harris, J.M., Hirst, J.L., Mossinghoff, M.J. (2008). Combinatorics. In: Combinatorics and Graph Theory. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79711-3_2
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