General Combinatorial Principles and Methods
- Combinatorial principles
- Trial and error, brute force search, bogosort, British Museum algorithm
- Pigeonhole principle
- Method of distinguished element
- Mathematical induction
- Recurrence relation, telescoping series
- Generating functions as an application of formal power series
- Schrödinger method
- exponential generating function
- Stanley's reciprocity theorem
- Binomial coefficients and their properties
- Combinatorial proof
- Double counting (proof technique)
- Bijective proof
- Inclusion-exclusion principle
- Möbius inversion formula
- Parity, even and odd permutations
- Combinatorial Nullstellensatz
- Incidence algebra
- Greedy algorithm
- Divide and conquer algorithm
- Akra-Bazzi method
- Dynamic programming
- Branch and bound
- Birthday attack, birthday paradox
- Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm
- Reduction to linear algebra
- Sparsity
- Weight function
- Minimax algorithm
- Alpha-beta pruning
- Probabilistic method
- Sieve methods
- Analytic combinatorics
- Symbolic combinatorics
- Combinatorial class
- Exponential formula
- Twelvefold way
- MacMahon Master theorem
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