Two thousand years of combinatorics

DOI10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199656592.003.0001MaRDI QIDQ5416187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donald E. Knuth

Publication date 19 May 2014

Published in Combinatorics: Ancient and Modern (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656592.003.0001

zbMATH Keywords

Latin languageSanskrit languageprosodypoetrypermutationspartitionsMusurgia universalismusicMorse code sequencesLilavatibacktrack methodGreek languageGenji incense gameFibonacci numberselectronic computerscombinatoricscombinationsCanon of supreme mystery (Taixuan jing)Book of changes (Yijing)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) General histories, source books (01A05) History of combinatorics (05-03)

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