Events Tagged: "combinatorics"

15 events with tag "combinatorics"

1708 ID: 429
Pierre Rémond de Montmort publishes 'Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard', early work on combinatorics and probability
ID: 429
1713 ID: 430
Jakob Bernoulli's 'Ars Conjectandi' published posthumously, containing combinatorial analysis and Bernoulli numbers
ID: 430
1713 ID: 457
Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi published posthumously, establishing probability theory and systematic combinatorics
ID: 457
1718 ID: 431
Abraham de Moivre publishes 'The Doctrine of Chances', advancing combinatorial probability theory
ID: 431
1730 ID: 495
Abraham de Moivre develops generating functions for solving recurrence relations
ID: 495
1736 ID: 403
Euler solves the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem, founding graph theory and topology
ID: 403
Königsberg
St. Petersburg Academy
1750 ID: 424
Euler discovers the polyhedron formula V - E + F = 2, relating vertices, edges, and faces of convex polyhedra
ID: 424
1752 ID: 425
Euler investigates the Knight's tour problem on a chessboard, an early graph traversal problem
ID: 425
1759 ID: 426
Euler solves the problem of the 36 officers, proving impossibility of certain Latin squares
ID: 426
1761 ID: 560
Euler develops theory of partitions in number theory using generating functions
ID: 560
1771 ID: 428
Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde analyzes the Knight's tour problem using what would later be called graph-theoretic ideas
ID: 428
1782 ID: 433
Euler introduces generating functions to solve partition problems, powerful tool for combinatorics
ID: 433
1794 ID: 432
Gaspard Monge develops descriptive geometry, connecting geometric and combinatorial ideas
ID: 432
1840 ID: 445
August Ferdinand Möbius solves the 'five princes problem' using what would later be called graph coloring
ID: 445
2021 ID: 3356
June Huh proves log-concavity conjecture using algebraic geometry
ID: 3356