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Combinatorics is a long story. But we believe that we live in the unique point of scientific history when combinatorics is becoming an essential part of mathematics and when the rich techniques developed in isolated and specific contexts are put to service in solving problems which are of general mathematical and scientific interest.
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Nešetřil, J., de Mendez, P.O. (2012). Introduction. In: Sparsity. Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27875-4_1
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