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Title: Introductory Graph Theory by Gary Chartrand ISBN: 0-486-24775-9 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 December, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Chemistry, Neural Nets, Matrix Manipulation -- all here
Comment: While working on my math degree I wanted some light reading on Graph Theory for completing some side projects. This book hit the spot, and the examples saved me.
Chartrand uses applications from every field of interest (e.g. finance, Chemistry, Physics, games, social psychology, computers, etc.) Who would have thought that while reading a math book that a friendly discussion of social psychology would pop-up? Well, that's how Chartrand is able to keep us moving through the pages; he uses the common to reveal the mysteries of Graph Theory. Who doesn't know about the Tower of Hanoi or the Knight's Tour or the one-boat-fox-and-chickens problems? All of these classics make for ready connecting points, leading us into profound restatements of well-known problems. Not much space is devoted to creating artificial problems for which we must be convinced need solving, and so the book is rather thin (a real bonus for those of us who don't want to spend a month in a math book).
Picking up the book after having read it so long ago, I was happy to find that the chapters are nearly autonomous and can be profitably read by themselves -- so keep it as a reference and jump in as the need arises, you'll be both entertained and mathematically illumined.
My only complaint is that the writing style is rather thick with mathematical lingo (seemingly) for the sake of being technically pithy. I am not convinced that such is necessary for a good math book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent overview for those with solid math background
Comment: This book is excellent, especially if you already have a pretty good background in math. I don't... high school math through calculus, almost all of which I've forgotten. But the appendix gets you up to speed on the basics of sets, functions, and proofs using mathematical induction. That was enough for me to get a lot out of all but the last chapter, which deals with matrices and groups. Although I have to admit that I occasionally needed to read an example four or five times before I really got it.
I definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in graph theory and to any serious software developer (which I why I picked it up). The ideas presented are directly applicable to that line of work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic Book!
Comment: Most books assume that the reader has a month to carefully read the book. In reality, the reader often has a day or two and needs a solid understanding of the material but not a really detailed understanding. This book is great because it quickly and clearly covers all of the necessary concepts. What else can you ask for?
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Title: Introduction to Graph Theory by Richard J. Trudeau ISBN: 0486678709 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 09 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Graph Theory: Including Hundreds of Solved Problems by V. K. Balakrishnan ISBN: 0070054894 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Combinatorial Optimization : Algorithms and Complexity by Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz ISBN: 0486402584 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 07 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Graph Theory and Its Applications by Jay Yellen, Jonathan L. Gross ISBN: 0849339820 Publisher: CRC Press Pub. Date: 30 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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Title: Graph Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 173) by Reinhard Diestel ISBN: 0387989765 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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