Review of Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Second Edition) 5 Author of Book: Harris, Hirst, Mossingho Springer, 382 pages, $40.00 new, $33.22 used (Amazon) Review by Mikl s B na 2009 o o Introduction Combinatorics and Graph Theory is a popular pair of topics to choose for an undergraduate course. In this book, the authors treat the two topics in an unusual order, not the one used in the title of the book. More about this soon. Every author of a introductory textbook has to strike a balance between the old and the new; the author has to decide which topics will be treated in the standard way and which ones will be treated in a more innovative way. In this review, we will try to describe the decisions the authors of this book made in this regard. The book has three parts, the rst of which is Graph Theory. On the whole, this is a thorough introduction to the eld, with the selection of topics and results in line with other standard textbooks. There are a few notions, conjectures and results that are less frequently encountered. One of these comes early, when after the basic de nitions,
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Review of Combinatorics and graph theory: (second edition) by John M. Harris, Jeffry L. Hirst and Michael J. Mossinghoff
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