Combinatorics of compositions and words /
Silvia Heubach, Toufik Mansour.
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2010.
- xxiii, 480 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Discrete mathematics and its applications .
"A Chapman & Hall book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Basic tools of the trade -- Compositions -- Statistics on compositions -- Avoidance of nonsubword patterns in compositions -- Words -- Automata and generating trees -- Asymptotics for compositions -- Useful identities and generating functions -- Linear algebra and algebra review -- Chebychev polynomials of the second kind -- Probability theory -- Complex analysis review -- Using Mathematica and Maple -- C++ and Maple programs.