Handbook of Combinatorics: 2-volume set [Paperback]

Ronald L. Graham (Editor), Martin Grötschel (Editor), László Lovász (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0262571722 | ISBN-13: 978-0262571722 | Publication Date: March 1, 2003

Combinatorics research, the branch of mathematics that deals with the study of discrete, usually finite, structures, covers a wide range of problems not only in mathematics but also in the biological sciences, engineering, and computer science. The Handbook of Combinatorics brings together almost every aspect of this enormous field and is destined to become a classic. Ronald L. Graham, Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, three of the world's leading combinatorialists, have compiled a selection of articles that cover combinatorics in graph theory, theoretical computer science, optimization, and convexity theory, plus applications in operations research, electrical engineering, statistical mechanics, chemistry, molecular biology, pure mathematics, and computer science.

The 20 articles in Volume 1 deal with structures while the 24 articles in Volume 2 focus on aspects, tools, applications, and horizons.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"If you need to know about the...applications of discrete structures, you'll probably find whatever you're looking for here."
— IEEE Micro Review

"The Handbook of Combinatorics will be a work of quality and significance in what has become, over the past 20 years, one of the most active and fruitful areas of mathematical research. The editors, who are top people in the field, have collected a distinguished group of authors. The Handbook will be a major and central scholarly work."
—Hartley Rogers, Jr., Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About the Author

Ronald L. Graham is Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Chief Scientist of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, San Diego.

Martin Grötschel is Professor of Information Technology, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin and Vice President of the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik in Berlin.

László Lovász is Senior Researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research.

Product Details

• Paperback: 2401 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262571722
• ISBN-13: 978-0262571722
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 3.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,926,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get your library to get this., April 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Handbook of Combinatorics, Vol. 1 (Paperback)

This is a collection of survey articles by various top class mathematicians about combinatorics, and the links the subject has with other branches of knowledge, from topology to biology. I have only read a couple of chapters in any detail and they were very useful. If you are in combinatorics, you must have access to this. The expense is worth it.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A collection of papers, not a handbook at all, May 26, 2009

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R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HANDBOOK OF COMBINATORICS VOLUME 1, Volume I (Hardcover)

An handbook is usually a little fact book with just the facts
presented in as understandable a fashion as possible.
You have to look at this book from a price to benefit point of view.
Most of these research / survey papers are just not presented in a teaching mode: more of a theorem and proof mode with references.
The price tag per volume is over 200 dollars.
My bet is that libraries and the authors are the main market,
with most poor graduate students and post grads not being able to afford
the volumes at a price for both at of $400.
The material is dense and not presented in enough detail that
the result is very useful to a student.
Here we have more ego than scholarship as a result?