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Chung is a pioneer in graph theory, or the study of graphs — particularly useful in revealing and exploiting important connections found in data networks.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
One of the central problems in graph theory is finding routes that visit each point in a graph exactly once before returning to their starting point.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2024
The name comes from the field of mathematics (graph theory) that the benchmark draws most heavily from.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2010
The authors also generalized that same technique to improve the multiplication process for rectangular (n-by-m) matrices — a procedure that has applications in graph theory, machine learning and other areas.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
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1947, in the meaning defined above
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“Graph theory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graph%20theory. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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