Continuing in the bestselling, informative tradition of the first edition, the
Handbook of Combinatorial Designs, Second Edition remains the only resource to
contain all of the most important results and tables in the field of
combinatorial design. This handbook covers the constructions, properties, and
applications of designs as well as existence results.
Over 30% longer than the first edition, the book builds upon the groundwork of
its predecessor while retaining the original contributors' expertise. The first
part contains a brief introduction and history of the subject. The following
parts focus on four main classes of combinatorial designs: balanced incomplete
block designs, orthogonal arrays and Latin squares, pairwise