Whole-book author: Oscar Levin. No separate chapter author is credited in the inspected section.
The author's institutional publication list dates the third edition to 2018. The online front matter displays 12 August 2025 without identifying that date as the edition's original publication date.[ref] [ref]
Cited passages: §1.2, Lattice Paths, step-position encoding; Binomial Coefficients, counting interpretations and recurrence; Pascal’s Triangle, indexing and edge values. The third edition’s 2018 publication year is distinct from the online front matter’s displayed date of 12 August 2025.