[FOM] Automated bijective proofs

Andreas Weiermann weiermann at math.uu.nl
Wed Jun 30 04:30:49 EDT 2004


"Timothy Y. Chow" <tchow at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I wonder if there has been any effort to automate the process of finding 
> bijective proofs in combinatorics?

To me it seems that the WZ method might be related in some parts to 
Chows problem: Maybe that everybody is aware of
this. Anyway (full) details of the WZ-story can be found under:


http://www.math.temple.edu/~akalu/html/pg1.html (Short overview)


http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html (The A=B book)


I agree with Jacques Carette's comments. I would like to add that
a corresponding online book is available on:

http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/books.html



Best regards,
Andreas Weiermann




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