Download or read book The Concrete Tetrahedron written by Manuel Kauers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book treats four mathematical concepts which play a fundamental role in many different areas of mathematics: symbolic sums, recurrence (difference) equations, generating functions, and asymptotic estimates. Their key features, in isolation or in combination, their mastery by paper and pencil or by computer programs, and their applications to problems in pure mathematics or to "real world problems" (e.g. the analysis of algorithms) are studied. The book is intended as an algorithmic supplement to the bestselling "Concrete Mathematics" by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik.