Design Theory

Design Theory, Second Edition presents some of the most important techniques used for constructing combinatorial designs.\n\nIt augments the descriptions of the constructions with many figures to help students understand and enjoy this branch of mathematics. This edition now offers a thorough development of the embedding of Latin squares and combinatorial designs. It also presents some pure mathematical ideas, including connections between universal algebra and graph designs. The authors focus on several basic designs, including Steiner triple systems, Latin squares, and finite projective and affine planes. They produce these designs using flexible constructions and then add interesting properties that may be required, such as resolvability, embeddings, and orthogonality. The authors also construct more complicated structures, such as Steiner quadruple systems. By providing both classical and state-of-the-art construction techniques, this book enables students to produce many other types of designs. Additional ISBNs 9781420082968, 9781315107233, 1420082965, 1315107236Design Theory 2nd Edition is written by Charles C. Lindner; Christopher A. Rodger and published by Chapman & Hall. ISBNs for Design Theory are 9781420082975, 1420082973 and the print ISBNs are 9781420082968, 1420082965. Additional ISBNs include 1420082965, 1315107236, 9781420082968, 9781315107233.