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Graph Theory As I Have Known It (Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications)

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The author has spent most of his professional life pondering some of the more substantial problems in graph theory. This book is not a comprehensive treatise on the subject but an organized collection of a series of lectures that he delivered in 1984. The lectures were just as much an attempt to provide insight into the process that led to some advanced theorems as about the theorems themselves. For this reason, the book is best suited for the beginning graduate student with some experience in the field.
Some of the problems covered in the book are: the knight's tour problem as an exercise in graph theory, subgraphs and Hamiltonian circuits; algebra in graph theory, symmetry in graphs and graphs on spheres. Throughout the explanations of the problems and the solution strategies, it is impossible not to appreciate the effort that was put forward to solve them. Tutte is clearly one of the leading authorities in graph theory and good at explaining what graph theory is all about.
This is not an easy book to read, yet it is readable. It would be ideal as the material for a graduate seminar in graph theory or a text in advanced topics.

It is unquestionably that W. T. Tutte is today one the greatest mathematicians in the world. I read this book with great enthusiasm because the author explains, with the work that made his fame, the most difficult part of the discovery of mathematics: The creativity involved.

The students will find in this book a great motivation to thinking in mathematics. For the experimented mathematician this book will make clear the born procces of some classic results in graph theory.

This is an excellent book, is just the story of a life of work and fun.