Catalan numbers with applications

by Thomas Koshy

$40 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 2 , 422; original blue laminate boards; title page wrinkled, else fine. This book includes descriptions of the mathematics and history behind Catalan numbers as well as short biographies of the prominent mathematicians who have worked with the numbers, including that of the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler who did, in fact, first discover them a century before Catalan. Item #72101

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