by | June 7, 2010 · 10:00 pm

But I don't know any graph theory!

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Bela Bollobas’s Modern Graph Theory.

I am an in-depth account of graph theory, written with the student in mind; I reflect the current state of the subject and emphasize connections with other branches of pure mathematics. Recognizing that graph theory is one of several courses competing for the attention of a student, I contain extensive descriptive passages designed to convey the flavor of the subject and to arouse interest.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test

A clever way to sell your textbooks…

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8 Responses to But I don't know any graph theory!

  1. Bob O'H
    June 7, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Feel yourself lucky you’re not teh Introduction to Lie Theory.

    I’m knot theory, FWIW.

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  2. Flesh-eating Dragon
    June 7, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    What is a “morning newspaper”?

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  3. J. J. Ramsey
    June 7, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    My result:

    You are Saunders Mac Lane’s Categories for the Working Mathematician.

    You provide an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from foundations, you illuminate the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. You then turn to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representation of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits.

    I’m sure that means something. I just don’t know what it is.

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    • Snarkyxanf
      June 8, 2010 at 3:16 am

      It means you like generalized abstract nonsense. Also pictures of arrows pointing at letters.

      I got Categories too.

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  4. Jhon Peterson
    June 8, 2010 at 5:05 am

    Thanks for letting us know about it, I am mostly visit the blogs related to scientific researches & developments.

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  5. Eamon Knight
    June 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Algebraic Geometry for me, apparently. This joke is way too “in” for me to grok.

    (But I got a whole chapter in my Masters dissertation out of pretending to know Graph Theory.)

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