Proofs and Confirmations

Released on by David M. Bressoud
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  • Proofs and Confirmations Book Detail

  • Author : David M. Bressoud
  • Release Date : 1999-08-13
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : Mathematics
  • Pages : 292
  • ISBN 13 : 1316582752
  • File Size : 73,73 MB
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Proofs and Confirmations by David M. Bressoud PDF Summary

Book Description: This is an introduction to recent developments in algebraic combinatorics and an illustration of how research in mathematics actually progresses. The author recounts the story of the search for and discovery of a proof of a formula conjectured in the late 1970s: the number of n x n alternating sign matrices, objects that generalize permutation matrices. While apparent that the conjecture must be true, the proof was elusive. Researchers became drawn to this problem, making connections to aspects of invariant theory, to symmetric functions, to hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric series, and, finally, to the six-vertex model of statistical mechanics. All these threads are brought together in Zeilberger's 1996 proof of the original conjecture. The book is accessible to anyone with a knowledge of linear algebra. Students will learn what mathematicians actually do in an interesting and new area of mathematics, and even researchers in combinatorics will find something new here.

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