The roots of combinatorics

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(79)90074-0zbMath0407.01002OpenAlexW1969724340WikidataQ54087177 ScholiaQ54087177MaRDI QIDQ1257879

Norman L. Biggs

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(79)90074-0

zbMATH Keywords

partitionscombinatoricspuzzleshistorycountingmagic squaresPascal's trianglepermutations and combination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General histories, source books (01A05) History of combinatorics (05-03)

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