Definition:Combinatorics/Historical Note

Historical Note on combinatorics
The earliest record of a problem in combinatorics was Plutarch's account of the attempt of to find the total number of syllables that could be made from the letters of the alphabet.

According to Plutarch, ' result was $1,002,000,000,000$ (a myriad-and-twenty times a myriad-myriad).

In modern times, the field of combinatorics was instigated by the investigations of the, along with the analytical work of.