Introduction to Counting & Probability Solution

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important and frequently considered optimization problems concerning cutting and packing. Based on appropriate modeling approaches for the problems considered, it offers an introduction to the related solution methods. It also addresses aspects like performance results for heuristic algorithms and bounds of the optimal value, as well as the packability of a given set of objects within a predefined container.

In this book, four basic areas of discrete mathematics are presented: Counting and Listing (Unit CL), Functions (Unit Fn), Decision Trees and Recursion (Unit DT), and Basic Concepts in Graph Theory (Unit GT). At the end of each unit is a list of Multiple Choice Questions for Review.

In 1902 the French mathematician Henri Lebesgue wrote his famous dis- sertation Integrale, Longueur, Aire (Integral, Length and Area). Since 1914 the theory of the Lebesgue measure has become a part of the under- graduate curriculum in analysis in all the technologically advanced coun- tries of the world.