Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating-Sign Matrix Conjecture
(Part of the Spectrum Series)
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This introduction to recent developments in algebraic combinatorics illustrates how research in mathematics actually progresses. The author recounts the dramatic search for and discovery of a proof of a counting formula conjectured in the late 1970s: the number of n x n alternating sign matrices, objects that generalize permutation matrices. While it was apparent that the conjecture must be true, the proof was elusive. As a result, researchers became...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521666465
ISBN13:9780521666466
Release Date:August 1999
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:292 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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