First published in 1976, this book has been widely acclaimed as a major and enlivening contribution to the history of mathematics. The updated and corrected paperback contains extracts from the original writings of mathematicians who contributed to the foundations of graph theory. The author's commentary links each piece historically and frames the whole with explanations of the relevant mathematical terminology and notation.
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"The lucidity, grace and wit of the writing makes this book a pleasure to read and re-read."--Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
"Recommended to all graph theorists interested in the history of their subject."--Mathematical Reviews
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Norman L. Biggs is at London School of Economics. E. Keith Lloyd is at University of Southampton.
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Some interesting episodes from the history of graph theory,
This review is from: Graph Theory 1736-1936 (Paperback)
This book teaches basic graph theory through excerpts from original papers in English translation. In between, the authors discuss the history and the mathematical concepts at an elementary level, hoping that the book may serve as a first textbook of graph theory. I think it could serve this purpose very well. There is a lot of focus on the puzzle-style origins of graph theory, starting with marvelous 18th century classics of Euler and Vandermonde and then including many other charming little topics like for instance a very nice 1895 paper of Tarry on how to find your way out of a maze. There are also topics from other fields (e.g. chemistry), but here I think the background discussions are a bit weak. Something like half the book is centred around the four-colour problem, which is historically faithful and necessary, but it is obviously disturbing that the book ends long before this problem was solved.
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THE origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
London Math, British Association, New York, Crum Brown, American Journal of Mathematics, Educational Times, Annals of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Mathematische Annalen, Professor De Morgan, Der Census, Frederick Guthrie, Headmaster of Clifton College, Opera Omnia, Scientific Association, United States of America New!
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London Math, British Association, New York, Crum Brown, American Journal of Mathematics, Educational Times, Annals of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Mathematische Annalen, Professor De Morgan, Der Census, Frederick Guthrie, Headmaster of Clifton College, Opera Omnia, Scientific Association, United States of America New!
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- Applications of Graph Theory by Author Unknown in Back Matter
- Discrete Mathematics by Laszlo Lovasz in Back Matter
- Discrete Mathematics by Norman L. Biggs in Back Matter
- Graph Theory (Cambridge Mathematical Library) by W. T. Tutte in Back Matter
- Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton (Volume 3) by R. Graves on page 36
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