This is the first book to provide a complete collection of drawings of smaller maps along with their number of rootings and serves as an introduction to maps as a combinatorial structure. It presents an introduction to the enumerative theory of maps and gives an explanation of their axiomatization and encoding. The authors' clear readable exposition with careful explanation of the combinatorial properties of maps makes this collection accessible to those who may have had little prior experience with maps. For others, it ...
Read More
This is the first book to provide a complete collection of drawings of smaller maps along with their number of rootings and serves as an introduction to maps as a combinatorial structure. It presents an introduction to the enumerative theory of maps and gives an explanation of their axiomatization and encoding. The authors' clear readable exposition with careful explanation of the combinatorial properties of maps makes this collection accessible to those who may have had little prior experience with maps. For others, it provides a ready source of data for testing conjectures and exploring algorithmic and algebraic properties of maps.
Read Less