Handbook of Combinatorics: 2-volume set

Description:

Combinatorics research, the branch of mathematics that deals with the study of discrete, usually finite, structures, covers a wide range of problems not only in mathematics but also in the biological sciences, engineering, and computer science. The Handbook of Combinatorics brings together almost every aspect of this enormous field and is destined to become a classic. Ronald L. Graham, Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, three of the world's leading combinatorialists, have compiled a selection of articles that cover combinatorics in graph theory, theoretical computer science, optimization, and convexity theory, plus applications in operations research, electrical engineering, statistical mechanics, chemistry, molecular biology, pure mathematics, and computer science.

The 20 articles in Volume 1 deal with structures while the 24 articles in Volume 2 focus on aspects, tools, applications, and horizons.

Ronald L. Graham is Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Chief Scientist of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, San Diego.

Martin Grötschel is Professor of Information Technology, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin and Vice President of the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik in Berlin.

László Lovász is Senior Researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research.