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100 1 _aWilson, Robin,
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245 0 0 _aGraph Theory in America :
_bThe First Hundred Years /
_cRobin Wilson, John J. Watkins, David J. Parks.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tFOREWORD
_r / Gary Chartrand --
_tPREFACE --
_tFEATURED PAPERS --
_tCHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS --
_tSetting the Scene: Early American Mathematics --
_tChapter 1 The 1800s --
_tInterlude A Graph Theory in Europe 1 --
_tChapter 2 The 1900s and 1910s --
_tChapter 3 The 1920s --
_tInterlude B Graph Theory in Europe 2 --
_tChapter 4 The 1930s --
_tChapter 5 The 1940s and 1950s --
_tChapter 6 The 1960s and 1970s --
_tAftermath --
_tGLOSSARY --
_tNOTES, REFERENCES, AND FURTHER READING --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PICTURE CREDIT --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHow a new mathematical field grew and matured in America Graph Theory in America focuses on the development of graph theory in North America from 1876 to 1976. At the beginning of this period, James Joseph Sylvester, perhaps the finest mathematician in the English-speaking world, took up his appointment as the first professor of mathematics at the Johns Hopkins University, where his inaugural lecture outlined connections between graph theory, algebra, and chemistry—shortly after, he introduced the word graph in our modern sense. A hundred years later, in 1976, graph theory witnessed the solution of the long-standing four color problem by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken of the University of Illinois.Tracing graph theory’s trajectory across its first century, this book looks at influential figures in the field, both familiar and less known. Whereas many of the featured mathematicians spent their entire careers working on problems in graph theory, a few such as Hassler Whitney started there and then moved to work in other areas. Others, such as C. S. Peirce, Oswald Veblen, and George Birkhoff, made excursions into graph theory while continuing their focus elsewhere. Between the main chapters, the book provides short contextual interludes, describing how the American university system developed and how graph theory was progressing in Europe. Brief summaries of specific publications that influenced the subject’s development are also included.Graph Theory in America tells how a remarkable area of mathematics landed on American soil, took root, and flourished.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
545 _aRobin Wilson is emeritus professor of mathematics at the Open University. His many books include Four Colors Suffice (Princeton). John J. Watkins is professor emeritus of mathematics at Colorado College. His books include Topics in Commutative Graph Theory, Number Theory, and Across the Board (all Princeton). David J. Parks received a PhD in mathematics at the Open University. His doctoral thesis forms the basis of this book.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed March 03 2026)
650 7 _aSCIENCE / History.
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650 7 _aMATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy.
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650 7 _aMATHEMATICS / Combinatorics.
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650 7 _aMATHEMATICS / General.
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653 0 _aGraph theory
653 0 _ahistory of mathematics
653 0 _aAmerica
653 0 _aNorth America
653 0 _aJ. J. Sylvester
653 0 _aG. D. Birkhoff
653 0 _aHassler Whitney
653 0 _aW. T. Tutte
653 0 _aAppel and Haken
653 0 _afour color problem
653 0 _amap coloring
653 0 _amathematics
653 0 _acomputer science
653 0 _aapplications
653 0 _aalgorithms
653 0 _aoperations research
653 0 _aGraph theory
653 0 _ahistory of mathematics
653 0 _aAmerica
653 0 _aNorth America
653 0 _aJ. J. Sylvester
653 0 _aG. D. Birkhoff
653 0 _aHassler Whitney
653 0 _aW. T. Tutte
653 0 _aAppel and Haken
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653 0 _amathematics
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653 0 _aapplications
653 0 _aalgorithms
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700 1 _aWatkins, John J.,
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