• structures are studied. Combinatorics studies how to count these objects using various representations. Combinatorics on words is a recent development...
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  • Algorithmic Combinatorics on Partial Words is a book in the area of combinatorics on words, and more specifically on partial words. It was written by Francine...
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  • making combinatorics into an independent branch of mathematics in its own right. One of the oldest and most accessible parts of combinatorics is graph...
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    Control Algorithm aversion Algorithm engineering Algorithm characterizations Algorithmic bias Algorithmic composition Algorithmic entities Algorithmic synthesis...
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  • Parameter word (category Combinatorics on words)
    In the mathematical study of combinatorics on words, a parameter word is a string over a given alphabet having some number of wildcard characters. The...
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  • at the end until the words are the same length, and then the words are compared as in the previous case. However, in combinatorics, another convention...
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    ISBN 978-3-540-63220-7, S2CID 17045308. Lothaire, M. (2005), Applied Combinatorics on Words, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 105, Cambridge...
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  • In computer science and the study of combinatorics on words, a partial word is a string that may contain a number of "do not know" or "do not care" symbols...
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  • Word problem for groups (category Combinatorics on words)
    finitely generated group G {\displaystyle G} is the algorithmic problem of deciding whether two words in the generators represent the same element of G...
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    and v such that t = usv. The relation "is a substring of" defines a partial order on Σ*, the least element of which is the empty string. A string s is said...
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  • In mathematics, in the areas of order theory and combinatorics, Dilworth's theorem states that, in any finite partially ordered set, the maximum size...
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    (1990), Introductory Combinatorics (2nd ed.), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN 978-0-15-541576-8 Bóna, Miklós (2004), Combinatorics of Permutations, Chapman...
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  • such as theoretical physics, computer science, algebra, analysis, combinatorics, algebraic, differential, discrete and Euclidean geometries, graph theory...
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    Ron Rivest (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is...
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  • generalizing partial orders; in this view, the structures corresponding to the linear extensions of a partial order are the basic words of the antimatroid...
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  • Numerical methods for partial differential equations is the branch of numerical analysis that studies the numerical solution of partial differential equations...
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  • in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry Andrea Bertozzi (born 1965), American researcher in partial differential equations...
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  • mathematics, for instance for the study of ordinary generating functions in combinatorics and the summation of divergent series in analysis. Many other power...
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    Dasgupta (1999). See Kim & Pearl (1983). Stanley Gill Williamson (1985). Combinatorics for Computer Science. Courier Dover Publications. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-486-42076-9...
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  • In combinatorics, Ramsey's theorem, in one of its graph-theoretic forms, states that one will find monochromatic cliques in any edge labelling (with colours)...
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    Dynamic programming is both a mathematical optimization method and an algorithmic paradigm. The method was developed by Richard Bellman in the 1950s and...
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  • y in the partial order, then x must come before y in the linear extension. In other words, it is a total order compatible with the partial order. If...
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    Gaussian elimination (category Exchange algorithms)
    Schrijver, Alexander (1993), Geometric algorithms and combinatorial optimization, Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol. 2 (2nd ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin...
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    Fine and Wilf's theorem (category Combinatorics on words)
    In combinatorics on words, Fine and Wilf's theorem is a fundamental result describing what happens when a long-enough word has two different periods (i...
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  • (2012). "Lemma 6.13". Sparsity: Graphs, Structures, and Algorithms. Algorithms and Combinatorics. Vol. 28. Heidelberg: Springer. p. 137. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27875-4...
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    In combinatorics and in experimental design, a Latin square is an n × n array filled with n different symbols, each occurring exactly once in each row...
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  • in most areas of mathematics, even for studying finite structures in combinatorics through generating functions. The mathematical properties of infinite...
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  • Stable matching problem (category Combinatorics)
    Matching Algorithms "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2012". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2013-09-09. Bruce Maggs and Ramesh Sitaraman (2015). "Algorithmic nuggets...
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  • Van Kampen diagram (category Combinatorics on words)
    behavior. This behavior yields useful information about algebraic and algorithmic properties of small cancellation groups, in particular regarding the...
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    information theory are source coding, channel coding, algorithmic complexity theory, algorithmic information theory, information-theoretic security, and...
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