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Proofs and Confirmations : The Story of the Alternating-Sign Matrix Conjecture (Spectrum)
Proofs and Confirmations The Story of the AlternatingSign Matrix Conjecture - Spectrum
Author: David M. Bressoud
This introduction to recent developments in algebraic combinatorics illustrates how research in mathematics actually progresses. The author recounts the dramatic search for and discovery of a proof of a counting formula conjectured in the late 1970s: the number of n x n alternating sign matrices, objects that generalize permutation matrices. W...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521666466
ISBN-10: 0521666465
Publication Date: 8/13/1999
Pages: 274
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Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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