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Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures.It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from logic to statistical physics and from evolutionary biology to computer science.
Although additive combinatorics is a fairly new branch of combinatorics (the term additive combinatorics was coined by Terence Tao and Van H. Vu in their 2006 book of the same name), a much older problem, the Cauchy–Davenport theorem, is one of the most fundamental results in this field.