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A First Course in Graph Theory and Combinatorics

Part of the book series: Texts and Readings in Mathematics (TRM, volume 55)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Basic Notions of Graph Theory

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 1-9
  3. Recurrence Relations

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 10-23
  4. The Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 24-32
  5. Matrices and Graphs

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 33-40
  6. Trees

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 41-51
  7. Möbius Inversion and Graph Colouring

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 52-71
  8. Enumeration under Group Action

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 72-85
  9. Matching Theory

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 86-99
  10. Block Designs

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 100-117
  11. Planar Graphs

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 118-126
  12. Edges and Cycles

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 127-140
  13. Regular Graphs

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 141-159
  14. Hints

    • Sebastian M. Cioabă, M. Ram Murty
    Pages 160-168
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 169-176

About this book

The concept of a graph is fundamental in mathematics since it conveniently encodes diverse relations and facilitates combinatorial analysis of many complicated counting problems. In this book, the authors have traced the origins of graph theory from its humble beginnings of recreational mathematics to its modern setting for modeling communication networks as is evidenced by the World Wide Web graph used by many Internet search engines. This book is an introduction to graph theory and combinatorial analysis. It is based on courses given by the second author at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada between 2002 and 2008. The courses were aimed at students in their final year of their undergraduate program.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Delaware, USA

    Sebastian M. Cioabă

  • Queen’s University, Canada

    M. Ram Murty

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