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But I don't know any graph theory!

Published 7 Jun 2010 by John S. Wilkins

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 Comments

    • John S. Wilkins John S. Wilkins

      What you download onto your iPad.

      7 Jun 2010
  2. Bob O'H Bob O'H

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

    I’m knot theory, FWIW.

    7 Jun 2010
  3. J. J. Ramsey J. J. Ramsey

    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.

    7 Jun 2010
    • Snarkyxanf Snarkyxanf

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

      I got Categories too.

      8 Jun 2010
  4. Jhon Peterson Jhon Peterson

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

    8 Jun 2010
  5. Eamon Knight Eamon Knight

    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.)

    8 Jun 2010
    • Barry Rountree Barry Rountree

      Oh, good, I’m not the only one then….

      8 Jun 2010

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