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Topology in molecular biology Topology in molecular biology Mikhail Ilʹich Monastyrskiĭ The book presents a class of results in molecular biology for which topological methods and ideas are important. These include: the large-scale conformation properties of DNA; computational methods (… OL16943456W
Combinatorial optimization Combinatorial optimization Christos H. Papadimitriou Christos H. Papadimitriou and Kenneth Steiglitz have combined the theory of computational complexity developed by computer scientists, and the foundations of mathematical programming developed by the… OL1891358W
Sphere packings, lattices, and groups Sphere packings, lattices, and groups John Horton Conway,Neil J. A. Sloane This book is an exposition of the mathematics arising from the theory of sphere packings. Considerable progress has been made on the basic problems in the field, and the most recent research is prese… OL1914189W
Mathematical problems and proofs Mathematical problems and proofs Branislav Kisačanin A gentle introduction to the highly sophisticated world of discrete mathematics, Mathematical Problems and Proofs presents topics ranging from elementary definitions and theorems to advanced topics -… OL1953244W
Applied Finite Group Actions Applied Finite Group Actions Adalbert Kerber The topic of this book is finite group actions and their use in order to approach finite unlabeled structures by defining them as orbits of finite groups of sets. Well-known examples are graphs, line… OL19827287W
Applied Parallel Computing Computations in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science Applied Parallel Computing Computations in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science Jack Dongarra This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science, PARA'95, held in Lyngby, Denmark, in Augu… OL19827346W
Data Correcting Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization Data Correcting Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization Boris Goldengorin ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​<i>Data Correcting Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization</i> focuses on algorithmic applications of the well known polynomially solvable special cases of computationally intractab… OL19840046W
Information Theory, Combinatorics, and Search Theory Information Theory, Combinatorics, and Search Theory Harout Aydinian This volume is dedicated to the memory of Rudolf Ahlswede, who passed away in December 2010. The Festschrift contains 36 thoroughly refereed research papers from a memorial symposium, which took plac… OL19857607W
Knowledge Spaces Knowledge Spaces Jean-Claude Falmagne The book describes up-to-date applications and relevant theoretical results. These applications come from various places, but the most important one, numerically speaking, is the internet based educa… OL19879779W
Lectures on Finitely Generated Solvable Groups Lectures on Finitely Generated Solvable Groups Katalin A. Bencsath <p><i>Lectures on Finitely Generated Solvable Groups</i> are based on the “Topics in Group Theory" course focused on finitely generated solvable groups that was given by Gilbert G. Baumslag at the Gr… OL19882865W
Numbers, Information and Complexity Numbers, Information and Complexity Ingo Althöfer Numbers, Information and Complexity is a collection of about 50 articles in honour of Rudolf Ahlswede. His main areas of research are represented in the three sections, `Numbers and Combinations', `I… OL19891457W
One-Factorizations One-Factorizations W. D. Wallis This is a specialized textbook on graph factorizations, an area which lies partly in graph theory and partly in the theory of combinational designs. It is the first full-size book on its particular s… OL19892178W
The Quadratic Assignment Problem The Quadratic Assignment Problem Eranda Çela The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem with numerous applications in facility location, scheduling, manufacturing, VLSI design, statistical data anal… OL19897984W
Symmetries, Integrable Systems and Representations Symmetries, Integrable Systems and Representations Kenji Iohara <p>This volume is the result of two international workshops; <i>Infinite Analysis 11 – Frontier of Integrability</i> – held at University of Tokyo, Japan in July 25th to 29th, 2011, and <i>Symmetries… OL19905253W
Thirty Essays on Geometric Graph Theory Thirty Essays on Geometric Graph Theory János Pach <p>In many applications of graph theory, graphs are regarded as geometric objects drawn in the plane or in some other surface. The traditional methods of "abstract" graph theory are often incapable o… OL19906980W
The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths Andreas M. Hinz <p>This is the first comprehensive monograph on the mathematical theory of the solitaire game “The Tower of Hanoi” which was invented in the 19th century by the French number theorist Édouard Lucas. … OL19907509W
The surprising mathematics of longest increasing subsequences The surprising mathematics of longest increasing subsequences Dan Romik "In a surprising sequence of developments, the longest increasing subsequence problem, originally mentioned as merely a curious example in a 1961 paper, has proven to have deep connections to many se… OL20003875W
Combinatorics And Finite Fields Combinatorics And Finite Fields Kai-Uwe Schmidt,Arne Winterhof Combinatorics and finite fields are of great importance in modern applications such as in the analysis of algorithms, in information and communication theory, and in signal processing and coding theo… OL20293909W
Combinatorial Designs Combinatorial Designs Christos Koukouvinos,Dimitrios E Simos,Stelios Georgiou This book covers the interplay between combinatorics, coding theory, and cryptography.It strikes a good balance between theoretical material and applications, covering the background, recent results,… OL20428523W
Socrates and the three little pigs Socrates and the three little pigs Mitsumasa Anno A wolf's attempt to figure out in which of five houses he is most likely to find one of three little pigs introduces such mathematical concepts as combinatorial analysis, permutations, and probabilit… OL4297761W
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