Graphs on Surfaces (Johns Hopkins Studies in the Mathematical Sciences)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: June 29, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801866890
Subjects: Combinatorics & graph theory; Science/Mathematics; Graph Theory; Mathematics; Surfaces; Advanced; Graphic Methods; Mathematics / Advanced; Combinatorics
First sentence: A graph G is a pair of sets, V(G) and E(G), where V(G) is nonempty and E(G) is a set of 2-element subsets of V(G).
Description: "Graph theory is one of the fastest growing branches of mathematics. Until recently, it was regarded as a branch of combinatorics and was best known by the famous four-color theorem stating that any map can be colored using only four colors such that no two bordering countries have the same color. Now graph theory is an area of its own with many deep results and beautiful open problems.

Graph theory has numerous applications in almost every field of science and has attracted new interest because of its relevance to such technological problems as computer and telephone networking and, of course, the internet." "In this new book in the Johns Hopkins Studies in the Mathematical Sciences series, Bojan Mohar and Carsten Thomassen look at a relatively new area of graph theory: that associated with curved surfaces.".

"Graphs on surfaces form a natural link between discrete and continuous mathematics. The book provides a rigorous and concise introduction to graphs on surfaces and surveys some of the recent developments in this area."--BOOK JACKET.