TY - BOOK AU - Lozansky, Edward AU - Rousseau, Cecil TI - Winning solutions SN - 9788184895261 U1 - 510.76 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Number theory KW - Combinatorial analysis KW - Mathematics N1 - 1 Numbers -- 1.1 The Natural Numbers -- 1.2 Mathematical Induction -- 1.3 Congruence -- 1.4 Rational and Irrational Numbers -- 1.5 Complex Numbers -- 1.6 Progressions and Sums -- 1.7 Diophantine Equations -- 1.8 Quadratic Reciprocity -- 2 Algebra -- 2.1 Basic Theorems and Techniques -- 2.2 Polynomial Equations -- 2.3 Algebraic Equations and Inequalities -- 2.4 The Classical Inequalities -- 3 Combinatorics -- 3.1 What is Combinatorics? -- 3.2 Basics of Counting -- 3.3 Recurrence Relations -- 3.4 Generating Functions -- 3.5 The Inclusion-Exclusion Principle -- 3.6 The Pigeonhole Principle -- 3.7 Combinatorial Averaging -- 3.8 Some Extremal Problems -- Hints and Answers for Selected Exercises -- General References -- List of Symbols ER -