Every mathematician, and user of mathematics, needs to manipulate sums or to find and handle combinatorial identities. In this book, the author provides a coherent tour of many known finite algebraic sums and offers a guide for devising simple ways of changing a given sum to a s…
Every mathematician, and user of mathematics, needs to manipulate sums or to find and handle combinatorial identities. In this book, the author provides a coherent tour of many known finite algebraic sums and offers a guide for devising simple ways of changing a given sum to a s…
"The ability to evaluate efficiently finite sums and combinatorial identities is a powerful tool for any mathematician or user of mathematics. As both a reference and an introduction to the art of manipulating sums for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, researchers…