Product Description: From the reviews of the previous editions ".... The book is a first class textbook and seems to be indispensable for everybody who has to teach combinatorial optimization. It is very helpful for students, teachers, and researchers in this area...read more

Product Description: Designs and Finite Geometries brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this important area of mathematics. Designs and Finite Geometries serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most important research issues in the field...read more

Product Description: Das Buch führt in die Grundlagen der mathematischen Optimierung ein und zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass diskrete und kontinuierliche Methoden integriert behandelt werden. Der überarbeiteten und korrigierten 2. Auflage wurden Kapitel zu linearen Programmen und allgemeinen Konvergenzsätzen sowie ein Anhang zur affinen Geometrie hinzugefügt...read more

Product Description: Ziel des Buches ist eine elementare Einführung in ausgewählte Teile der Kombinatorik. Dabei werden zusätzlich zur Darstellung der Grundlagen in jedem Kapitel exemplarisch einige tiefer liegende Resultate vollständig bewiesen...read more

Product Description: This volume concludes the second edition of the standard text on design theory. Since the first edition there has been extensive development of the theory and this book has been thoroughly rewritten to reflect this. In particular, the growing importance of discrete mathematics to many parts of engineering and science have made designs a useful tool for applications, a fact that has been acknowledged here with the inclusion of an additional chapter on applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)