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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Béla Bollobás
Title: Modern graph theory
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 184, Springer, New York, 1998, xiii + 394 pp., ISBN 0-387-98488-7, $59.95$

Author: Reinhard Diestel
Title: Graph theory
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 173, Springer, New York, 1997, xiv + 286 pp., $59.95$, hardcover; ISBN 0-387-98211-6, $29.95$, softcover

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Michael O. Albertson
    Affiliation: Smith College
    Email: albertson@math.smith.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 389-390
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00781-8
    Published electronically: April 27, 1999
    Additional Notes: Research supported by NSA grant MSPF-96S-043.
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society