Extremal Combinatorics
List of Errata (for the 2nd edition)
Spelling errors and obvious typos
Most of them observed by Ronald de Wolf and his students. Thanks!
- page 34, 3 lines before Thm 2.16: its cover number --> the cover number
- page 57, line 8; put "the" before Cauchy-Schwarz
- page 59, line -8: "fxing" --> "fixing" (Nan Shan)
- page 70, Ex. 4.6: missing "t" in "weightings" (Jernej Azarija)
- page 73: Ex 4.26: A complement --> The complement
- page 91, last line of Section 6.1: typo in R"odl, should be R\"odl
- page 89, line 1: insert "the" before "most beautiful results"
- page 92, line 1: a contrapositive --> the contrapositive
- page 92, line -6: sunflwover --> sunflower
- page 92, line -2: and integer --> an integer
- page 97, line 5 of Ex 6.7: fewer that --> fewer than
- page 97, line 4 of Ex 6.8: remaining vertices --> the remaining vertices
- page 101, last line: restrict ourselves with --> restrict ourselves to
- page 108, line -8: redundant `)' after size r+1
- page 109, line -7: "the" can be dropped (Esfandiar Haghverdi)
- page 110, line -12: insert "a" before "universal sequence"
- page 194, line 2: half of vectors --> half of the vectors
- page 201, Ex. 14.4: "by labeling" --> "is obtained by labeling"
- page 220, line 8: hyphenate constant-degree
- page 232, line -2: "poinr" -> "point" (Jernej Azarija)
- page 235, Ex. 16.4: Insert "is" after "If $S$"
- page 299, line 2: replace "we have proved" by "we will prove"
- page 323, line -5: Insert "be" before "a family"
- page 345, lines 5-6: change position of the word "clauses" in
"... is the number of clauses satisfied by our
random assignment
clauses, then ..." (Peter Stahlecker)
- page 396: "De Wolf" should be "de Wolf", and alphabetized according to `W'.
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