Combinatorics and the Analysis of Algorithms

Helmut Prodinger
School of Mathematics
University of the Witwatersrand
Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050 Johannesburg
South Africa

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When one analyses algorithms in the style Knuth created 40 years ago, one encounters many mathematical challenges, most of them of a combinatorial flavour. In the talk, several attractive examples will be presented.