Russell Merris, Combinatorics, 2nd ed. Wiley Interscience, 2003, Errata


P. 6, last line of Example 1.1.4 (MIchael Murphy): Spurious "i" in "possibile".

P. 19 (Diana Davis): Exercise 21 should end with a question mark.

P. 31 (Bob Zeno): First line of Exercise 20: " ... chooses asn integer ... "

P. 35, line -10 (Michael Murphy): errors

P. 37, line 13 (Michael Murphy): optimal

P. 50, line -4 (Diana Davis): dessert

P. 51, line 8 (Joe Judd): "Kronecker" is spelled with two r's and one n, not the other way around.

P. 54, Exercise 21 (Bert Fristedt): "The nth rth Bernoulli number ... "

P. 58, line -6(Michael Murphy): corresponds

P. 62, line 2: ... or of N's coming after ...

P. 68, line 11 (Michael Murphy): ... or of them are y's.

P. 71, line 8 (Michael Murphy): ... Form From either perspective ...

P. 71, Footnote double-dagger (Diana Davis): These polynomials ...

P. 77, line 1 (Diana Davis): ... the perfection of 6 ...

P. 77, line 15 (Michael Murphy): Spurious "n" in "order ning"

P. 78, line -5 (DongGook Park): The line should end " ... (65) +"

P. 81, line -9 (Diana Davis): They are the basic ...

P. 92 (Joe Judd): In the first line of the statement of Theorem 1.9.9, tth should be tth.

P. 92 (Diana Davis): In the first line of the proof of Theorem 1.9.9, it should be "sequence".

P. 93, line 2 (Bob Zeno): " ... taken t andt a"

P. 94, line 2 (Diana Davis): ... is a polynomial ...

P. 99, Exercise 23a: e(n,21) = C(n+1,2).

P. 100, Exercise 26b (Noah Franske): The minimal symmetric polynomial on the right-hand side of the equation should be M_[2,1^(t-1)].

P. 118, line 4 (Bob Zeno): " ... a unique of element of"

P. 122, first line of Definition 2.1.17 (DongGook Park): "The number of partitions of ... "

P. 123, line -6 (Michael Murphy): " ... alone isn in its block and those"

P. 124 (Joe Judd): In the caption to Fig. 2.1.2, the K in "kind" should be lower case.

P. 126, line -2: No apostrophe in "cyphers"

P. 137, line 8 (Diana Davis): ... nonnegative ...

P. 141, line 1 (Diana Davis): No comma between "cannot" and "happen".

P. 144, line 1 (DongGook Park): The first subscript (the subscript on the first "A") should be 1.

P. 161 (Diana Davis): Exercise 13 should end with a question mark.

P. 167, line 2 (Bob Zeno): " ... the coefficient to of ... "

P. 167 (Diana Davis): In the second line of Example 2.5.7, "Kind" should not be capitalized.

P. 197, second line of Example 3.3.11 (James Holbert): "Brunside's" should be "Burnside's".

P. 207, two lines above Equation (3.28) (James Holbert): "Fig. 3.4.1a" should be "Fig. 3.4.1b".

P. 210, line 1 (James Holbert): The first word of the line should be "Let's".

P. 219 (James Holbert): Three lines above Lemma 3.5.2, "mathematicians" should be "mathematics".

PP 234-5 (James Holbert): In the column headings for Fig.s 3.6.3 and 3.6.4, the C's should all be lower case.

P. 240, Exercise 16 (Bert Fristedt): The penultimate character in the third line (the numeral before the period) should be, not 4 but 6.

P. 250, Exercise 17 (Bert Fristedt): In the formula on the third line, the coefficient "16" should be 15.

P. 281, Exercise 4 (Bert Fristedt): The instructions involve a_n, whereas parts (b) and (c) involve b_n and c_n, resp.

P. 290: In line 4 of Fig. 4.3.2, the second x^2 (x-squared) should be enclosed in square brackets, i.e., it should be [x^2].

P. 332, line -2 (Bob Zeno): 1983 1883

P. 341, line 2: ... candidates ...

P. 367, Exercise 6a (Sara Siegmann): followignng

P. 371, Exercise 31 (Nathan Reading): ... fixed but arbitrary three tree on ...

P. 378, line 1: wans't

P. 393, Exercise 22 (Diana Davis): Sachs's theorem.

P. 397, line 5 (Diana Davis): ... as in Fig. 5.6.1a following.

P. 405, Exercise 5(c) (Diana Davis): ... all t(G) spanning treess.

P. 437, end of the first line of the second footnote: ... is an linear r-error-

P. 450, 7th line after Fig. 6.3.6 (Michael Murphy): "Now, forget that the elements ... "

P. 462, 1st line after Example 6.4.2 (Michael Murphy): "It is hard to tlook ... "

P. 463, line 10 (Michael Murphy): "Tthe only known proof ... "

P. 515 (Bert Fristedt): The hint for Exercise 21(d) overlooks a more straightforward proof using Theorem 2.3.11 on p. 148.

P. 534: 7(bc) [i.e., the answer for 7(c) is incorrectly labeled 7(b).]


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