Search Results for: Combinatorics A Very Short Introduction

How many possible sudoku puzzles are there? In the lottery, what is the chance that two winning balls have consecutive numbers? Who invented Pascal's triangle?

Number theory is the branch of mathematics primarily concerned with the counting numbers, especially primes. It dates back to the ancient Greeks, but today it h

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The aim of this volume is to explain the differences between research-level mathematics and the maths taught at school. Most differences are philosophical and t

How many possible sudoku puzzles are there? In the lottery, what is the chance that two winning balls have consecutive numbers? Who invented Pascal's triangle?