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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566641
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: John Riordan
Title: Combinatorial identities
Additional book information: John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1968.

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  • C. Berge, Principes de combinatoire, Dunod, Paris, 1968 (French). MR 0237346
  • 2.
    E. Netto, Kombinatorik, reprint, Chelsea, New York.
  • Ronald Mullin and Gian-Carlo Rota, On the foundations of combinatorial theory. III. Theory of binomial enumeration, Graph Theory and its Applications (Proc. Advanced Sem., Math. Research Center, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 1969) Academic Press, New York, 1970, pp. 167–213 (loose errata). MR 0274300
  • J. F. Steffensen, Interpolation, Chelsea Publishing Co., New York, N. Y., 1950. 2d ed. MR 0036799
  • John Riordan, An introduction to combinatorial analysis, Wiley Publications in Mathematical Statistics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York; Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, 1958. MR 0096594
  • 6.
    C. Jordan, Calculus of finite differences, Chelsea, New York, 1950.
    7.
    P. A. MacMahon, Combinatory analysis, 2 vols., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1915, 1916.

    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Paul R. Stein
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 78 (1972), 490-496
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1972-12968-9