Basic Graph Theory

Bela Bollobas has been a Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, for over fifty years, for decades as a Director of Studies in Mathematics, and is the Chair of Excellence in Combinatorics at the University of Memphis. He has had over seventy Ph.D. students. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Among the awards he has received are a Senior Whitehead Prize, a Bocskai Prize, a Szechenyi Prize and an Honorary Doctorate from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. This is his fourteenth book. Robert Morris has taught graph theory and combinatorics at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro for the past fifteen years, and has had more than twenty Ph.D. and Masters students. He is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the European Prize in Combinatorics, the Fulkerson Prize, the MCA Prize, and the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. His first book was awarded the Elon Lages Lima Prize by the Brazilian Mathematical Society. This is his second book.