Using polyomino enumeration and the self-avoiding walk problem as examples, the author shows how to produce enough terms of the generating function to enable soundly based conjectures about that function's analytic properties.
Citation:
Anthony Guttmann, "Enumerations in Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 42-47, May/June 2001, doi:10.1109/5992.919265