Dover - Challenging Mathematical Problems with Elementary Solutions - Combinatorial Analysis and Probability Theory - Volume 1 - 1964.pdf

A. M. Yag!om and l. M. Yag!om
CHALLENGING MATHEMATICAL
PROBLEMS WITH
ELEMENTARY SOLlJrIONS
Volume I
Combinatorial Analysis and Probability Theory
Translated by James McCawley, Jr.
Revised and edited by Basil Gordon
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
NEW YORK
Copyright © 1964 by The University of Chicago.
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Published in Canada by General pany,
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pany, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London WC2H 7EG.
This Dover edition, first published in 1987, is an un•
abridged and unaltered republication of the edition pub•
lished by Holden-Day, Inc., San Francisco, in 1964. It was
published then as part of the Survey of Recent East
European Mathematical Literature. a project conducted by
Alfred L. Putnam and Izaak Wirszup, Dept. of Mathematics,
The University of Chicago, under a grant from The National
Science Foundation. It is reprinted by special arrangement
with Holden-Day, Inc., 4432 Telegraph Ave., Oakland,
California 94609.
Originally published as Neelementarnye Zadachi v Ele•
mentarnom Izlozhenii by the Government Printing House
for Technical-Theoretical Literature, Moscow, 1954.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola,
. 11501
Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data
Yaglom, A. M.
[Neelementarnye zadachi v elementarnom izlozhenii.
English]
Challenging mathematical problems with elementary
solutions I A. M. YagJom and I. M. YagJom: translated by
James McCawley, Jr. : revised and edited by Basil Gordon.
p. cm.
Translation of: Neelementarnye zadachi v elementar•
nom izlozhenii. Reprint. Originally: San Francisco :
Holden-Day, 1964-1967.
Bibliography: p.
Includes indexes.
Contents: v. 1. Combinatorial analysis and probability
theory-v. 2