Finite geometry and combinatorics
Subtitle: the Second International Conference at Deinze
By: edited by A. Beutelspacher ... [et al.].
Contributors: Beutelspacher, Albrecht.; International Conference on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics (2nd : 1992 : Deinze, Belgium)
Series: London Mathematical Society lecture note series ;; 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Finite geometries -- Congresses.; Combinatorial analysis -- Congresses.
Description: Finite Geometry and Combinatorics is the art of counting any phenomena that can be described by a diagram. Everyday life is full of applications: from telephones to compact disc players, from the transmission of confidential information to the codes on any item on supermarket shelves. This is a collection of 35 articles on covering topics such as finite projective spaces, generalised polygons, strongly regular graphs, diagram geometries and polar spaces.

Included here are articles from many of the leading practitioners in the field, including, for the first time, several distinguished Russian mathematicians. Many of the papers contain important new results, and the growing use of computer algebra packages in this area is also demonstrated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Second International Conference on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, which took place from 31 May to 6 June 1992 at the Conference center De Ceder in Astene-Deinze, Belgium"--Pref.