Report on the present state of combinatorics

DOI10.1016/0012-365X(95)00143-KMaRDI QIDQ1917532zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gian-Carlo Rota

Publication date 7 July 1996

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-365X(95)00143-K

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic combinatoricsinvariant theoryprobabilityspecial functionsspecies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) History of combinatorics (05-03) Algebraic combinatorics (05E99)

Review text

This is the inaugural address delivered at the 5th Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics conference in Florence, June, 1993. Accordingly, this survey is limited, in most part, to algebraic combinatorics. It differs from the usual survey in that no compendium of references is appended (but the names are there). Rather, the focus is on relations between algebraic combinatorics and abstract algebra, patterns of development in graph theory due specifically to Robertson and Seymour, and relations between combinatorics and probability. Also discussed are the make-up of present day invariant theory, species and bijective combinatorics, and the theory of special functions. So this should be read for one's cultural enhancement rather than for extracting specifics with respect to journals and dates.

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