Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
DONALD E. KNUTH: Two Thousand Years of Combinatorics
PART I: ANCIENT COMBINATORICS
1: TAKANORI KUSUBA and KIM PLOFKER: Indian Combinatorics
2: ANDREA BRÉARD: China
3: AHMED DJEBBAR: Islamic Combinatorics
4: VICTOR J. KATZ: Jewish Combinatorics
5: EBERHARD KNOBLOCH: Renaissance Combinatorics
6: EBERHARD KNOBLOCH: The Origins of Modern Combinatorics
7: A. W. F. EDWARDS: The Arithmetical Triangle
PART II: MODERN COMBINATORICS
8: ROBIN WILSON: Early Graph Theory
9: GEORGE E. ANDREWS: Partitions
10: NORMAN BIGGS and ROBIN WILSON: Block Designs
11: LARS DØVLING ANDERSEN: Latin Squares
12: E. KEITH LLOYD: Enumeration (18th-20th Centuries)
13: IAN ANDERSON: Combinatorial Set Theory
14: LOWELL BEINEKE and ROBIN WILSON: Modern Graph Theory
AFTERMATH
PETER J. CAMERON: A Personal View of Combinatroics

About the Author

Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He is currently President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. He has written and edited many books on graph theory, including Introduction to Graph Theory and Four Colours Suffice, and on the history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll
in Numberland. He is involved with the popularization and communication of mathematics and its history, and was awarded a Pólya prize by the Mathematical Association of America for 'outstanding expository writing'. John J.
Watkins is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Colorado College, USA. He received his doctorate from the University of Kansas, specializing in commutative ring theory. His main research interest, however, has been in graph theory and he has published mainly in this area, including many papers with undergraduates as co-authors. He has written several books, including Graphs: An Introductory Approach, Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems, and Topics
in Commutative Ring Theory, and has recently finished his latest book, Elementary Number Theory. Colorado College presented John Watkins with the 2005 Boettcher Award for Faculty Excellence.

Reviews

This book is a welcome addition to [Wilson's] body of work ... it will be of interest to anyone involved with combinatorics or the history of mathematics. Mathematics Today