Schaum's Outline of Graph Theory: Including Hundreds of Solved Problems |  | Author: V. Balakrishnan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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ISBN: 0070054894
Dewey Decimal Number: 511.5076
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Publication Date: February 1, 1997
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Student's love Schaum's--and this new guide will show you why! Graph Theory takes you straight to the heart of graphs. As you study along at your own pace, this study guide shows you step by step how to solve the kind of problems you're going to find on your exams. It gives you hundreds of completely worked problems with full solutions. Hundreds of additional problems let you test your skills, then check the ansers. So if you want to get a firm handle on graph theory--whether to ace your graph course, to supplement a course that uses graphs, or to build a solid basis for future study--there's no better tool than Schaum's. This guide makes a wonderful supplement to your class text, but it is so comprehensive that it can even be used alone as a complete graph theory independent study course!
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 Wonderful Reference For Graph Theory July 14, 2008
Patrick Thompson (Nassau, Bahamas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful in my eyes. However, I do not recommend most Schaum's Outlines as textbooks, but as supplements to texts. They just contain too much. This book is good reference to have if you're doing a course in graph theory or if your work involves graph theory. I highly recommend it for reference use.
 Not up to the standard of most Schaum's outlines December 25, 2005
calvinnme (Fredericksburg, Va)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have bought and used many Schaum's outlines on various subjects in math and science, and I would say that this outline on graph theory is one of the worst. Most Schaum's outlines give you the theory in small doses, with plenty of diagrams to explain the concepts. This outline reads more like one of the textbooks on the subject, however. Theorems and their illustrations are poorly presented, and the author could not have made the subject matter drier and more unappealing if he had tried. You might be able to get something out of it if you are a student of pure mathematics, but you will definitely be disappointed in this book if you are a computer science student. If you are already using a bad textbook for a class in graph theory, this book will only add to your collection of bad unreadable texts on the subject. For computer science students, I suggest that you check out the chapters on graph algorithms in Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al. That book has pseudocode, explanations, and diagrams to help you work out implementations of various graphing algorithms.
 This book is $$$ for a reason January 12, 2003
James (Lafayette, CA United States)
17 out of 21 found this review helpful
This book was an absolute hell to contend with. I've taken two courses in Graph Theory, using Robin J. Wilson's Introduction to Graph Theory and this cheap broadsheet, respectively. Wilson's book is the one to use! It's extremely well-written, even fun to read--the reviews on Amazon will bear that out.In the second graph theory course that I took (to refresh and refine my understanding), the professor chose the Schaum text solely for its low cost--he thought he was doing the students a service. Hardly. No thought whatsoever has been put into the readability of this book. The tiny dark-grey font on light-grey paper is a simple enough design flub that makes reading past even two or three pages at a time almost unbearable. Defining terms is seen as a chore to be compacted--a single page at the beginning of each chapter might try to define 10-15 terms, just to get them out of the way. It becomes a mess of bold print that the reader is forced to continually return to because the definitions come with no context nor examples by which to remember them. In the end, the reader realizes that 2/3 of the book is just list after list of badly-worded questions following under-scripted lessons. Look, it's not even worth writing any more about, the text frustrates me so much. There's only two other reviews on this page, and I'd place money on them being written by the author himself. Save yourself the $$$ and the hassle, and just go buy Wilson's book. Trust me.
 Good Book. I recommend it. May 20, 2001
Leonardo (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
In general, the book not requires study in advance, but it is better for reference. I'm a software engineer and the book's treatment of "Shortest Path" and "Connectivity" problems is very usefull. Good for fast remember of the subject.
A smooth surfing into the amazing world of graph theory July 3, 2000
yosip@avoda.jct.ac.il (Israel)
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
In this book one can find a practical survey of both principles and practice of graph theory, with great coverage of the subject. The outhor provides a lots of solved problems, with losts of theory proofs and all with great clarity and common reasoning. The outhor gets you enter the subject step by step from the easy problems to the hardest with great skill. Also the algorithms on graphs presented in this book, and in general the algorithmic approach of this book are presented most clearly. You wouldn't leave this book until you'l finish read it and understand graph theory. Finally you would fill that at least on one branch of mathematics you are well sitted.
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