Written by Reinhard Diestel received a PhD from the University of Cambridge, following research 1983-86 as a scholar of Trinity College under Béla Bollobás. He was a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1986 to 1990. Research appointments and scholarships have taken him to Bielefeld (Germany), Oxford and the US. He became a professor in Chemnitz in 1994 and has held a chair at Hamburg since 1999.Graph theory is gaining fast growing importance in college and university education. Its applications in computer science, economics, optimization make graph theory an obligatory part in syllabuses of electrical engineering, operations research,...
