Proofs And Confirmations

An introduction to recent developments in algebraic combinatorics and an illustration of how research in mathematics actually progresses. The author recounts th... » 

An introduction to recent developments in algebraic combinatorics and an illustration of how research in mathematics actually progresses. The author recounts the story of the search for and discovery of a proof of a formula conjectured in the 1970s: the number of n x n alternating sign matrices. «