Questions on the use of Mathematica in combinatorics, including the Combinatorica add-on package.
Questions on the use of Mathematica in combinatorics, including the Combinatorica add-on package. Combinatorics is the branch of mathematics studying the enumeration, combination, and permutation of sets of elements and the mathematical relations that characterize their properties. This involves built in functions sucha as Tuples, Permutations, Signature, Ordering, Cycles, etc.
More general questions on sets, lists or sequences of elements might want to use the tag list-manipulation. Questions about order of elements in a list and about sorting lists should use the tag sorting. Questions about permutations should use permutation.
Useful links:
- Combinatorica package (supplied with Mathematica)
- Combinatorics on MathWorld
- Tutorial on Grouping and Combining Elements of Lists
- Guide to Permutations
