1st Edition

Erd�s on Graphs His Legacy of Unsolved Problems

By Fan Chung, Ron Graham Copyright 1998
    142 Pages
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    142 Pages
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    This book is a tribute to Paul Erd\H{o}s, the wandering mathematician once described as the "prince of problem solvers and the absolute monarch of problem posers." It examines -- within the context of his unique personality and lifestyle -- the legacy of open problems he left to the world after his death in 1996. Unwilling to succumb to the temptations of money and position, Erd\H{o}s never had a home and never held a job. His "home" was a bag or two containing all his belongings and a record of the collective activities of the mathematical community. His "job" was one at which he excelled: identifying a fundamental roadblock in some particular line of approach and capturing it in a well-chosen, often innocent-looking problem, whose solution would likewise provide insight into the underlying theory. By cataloguing the unsolved problems of Erd\H{o}s in a comprehensive and well-documented volume, the authors hope to continue the work of an unusual and special man who fundamentally influenced the field of mathematics.

    1. Introduction 2. Ramsey Theory 3. Extremal Graph Theory 4. Coloring, Packing, and Covering 5. Random Graphs and Graph Enumeration 6. Hypergraphs 7. Infinite Graphs

    Biography

    Chung, Fan; Graham, Ron