Enumerative theory of maps

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In his preface, the author states that ``Enumeration occupies the foundation of combinatorics with a large range of applications not only in mathematics itself but also in many other disciplines. It is too broad a task to write a book to show the deep development in every corner from this aspect. This monograph is intended to provide a unified theory for those related to the enumeration of maps. \dots The initiation of this theory was established by Professor W. T. Tutte whose articles and directions were invoked by me to enter the field when I was working in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in the period of 1982-1984. Without these, I would be doing something else at the present time. The Chapter headings are: 1 Preliminaries; 2 Outerplanar maps; 3 Triangulations; 4 Cubic maps; 5 Eulerian maps; 6 Nonseparable maps; 7 Simple maps; 8 General maps; 9 Chrosum equations; 10 Polysum equations; 11 Chromatic solutions; 12 Stochastic behaviors. Comments, and value judgments. A long bibliography---not without typographical errors---includes 61 items by the author. This reviewer is dismayed that a manuscript of this type could be published with so little editing and proofreading.




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