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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Comprehensive supplementary reference
Don't try to learn anything for the first time from this. In each of the book's 54 sections, information is delivered as bulleted lists of definitions and theorems (called "facts") and there are extensive references to the literature. To maximize brevity, there is seldom any narrative introduction and only a few brief examples. No proofs, just references to them...
Published on October 27, 2005 by Nathan Oakes
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing more than a handbook
As the title indicates, this is not a textbook, but a handbook. The interest of this one is to have pointers to the literature and to cover as much as possible of graph theory, so don't expect to find much details about something particular. I don't think it's useful for anything else than having a "close to hand" access to most of graph theory, hence only...
Published on February 11, 2004 by Steve Uhlig
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Comprehensive supplementary reference,
By Nathan Oakes (Ashland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Handbook of Graph Theory (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) (Hardcover)
Don't try to learn anything for the first time from this. In each of the book's 54 sections, information is delivered as bulleted lists of definitions and theorems (called "facts") and there are extensive references to the literature. To maximize brevity, there is seldom any narrative introduction and only a few brief examples. No proofs, just references to them.I noted two significant gaps in coverage. Since the main application of graph theory is in computer science, much of the Handbook relates to that field, yet there is no chapter on computational complexity. The other absent topic is scale-free graphs.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing more than a handbook,
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This review is from: Handbook of Graph Theory (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) (Hardcover)
As the title indicates, this is not a textbook, but a handbook. The interest of this one is to have pointers to the literature and to cover as much as possible of graph theory, so don't expect to find much details about something particular. I don't think it's useful for anything else than having a "close to hand" access to most of graph theory, hence only three stars for this limited interest compared to the relatively high price.
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Handbook of Graph Theory (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) by Jonathan L. Gross (Hardcover - December 29, 2003)
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