📚 Combinatorics

Counting without listing: arrangements, choices and the pigeonholes that prove things exist.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject combinatorics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Introduction to modern cryptography	Jonathan Katz	2007	15
	Algebraic number theory	Ian Stewart	1979	12
	Applied combinatorics	Alan C. Tucker	1980	10
	Graph theory and its applications	Jonathan L. Gross	1999	10
	Chromatic graph theory	Gary Chartrand	2008	9
	Mathematical proofs	Gary Chartrand	2002	8
	Logic Colloquium 2005	Logic Colloquium (2005 Athens, Greece)	2007	8
	Combinatorial algorithms	Donald L. Kreher	1998	7
	Introduction to number theory	Martin J. Erickson	2007	7
	Continuous lattices and domains	Gerhard Gierz	2003	6
	Combinatorics of symmetric designs	Yuri Ionin	2006	6
	Combinatorics	Nicholas Loehr	2017	6
	Finite Geometries	Gyorgy Kiss	2019	6
	50 Years of Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing	Fan R. K. Chung	2019	6
	Art of Proving Binomial Identities	Michael Z. Spivey	2019	6
	Computational Complexity of Counting and Sampling	Istvan Miklos	2019	6
	Advanced combinatorics	Louis Comtet	1974	5
	Mathematical essays in honor of Gian-Carlo Rota	Gian-Carlo Rota	1998	5
	Discrete Mathematics	Sriraman Sridharan	2006	5
	Applications of combinatorial matrix theory to Laplacian matrices of graphs	Jason J. Molitierno	2012	5
	Near Rings Fuzzy Ideals and Graph Theory	Bhavanari Satyanarayana	2013	5
	Analytic Combinatorics	Marni Mishna	2019	5
	Combinatorics and Geometry	Walter Ledermann	1985	4
	Proofs from the book	Martin Aigner	1998	4
	Handbook of combinatorial optimization	Dingzhu Du	1998	4
	Digraphs	Jørgen Bang-Jensen	2001	4
	Handbook of Finite Fields	Gary L. Mullen	2013	4
	Combinatorial Designs	Christos Koukouvinos	2016	4
	Fundamentals of Ramsey Theory	Aaron Robertson	2021	4
	Graph theory	M. Borowiecki	1983	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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