Readership: Advanced undergraduate, graduate students and researchers in graph theory, combinatorics or history of mathematics.
Norman L. Biggs, Professor, London School of Economics, E. Keith Lloyd, University of Southampton, and Robin J. Wilson, Senior Lecturer, The Open University
1: Oaths 2: Circuits 3: Trees 4: Chemical graphs 5: Euler's polyhedral formula 6: The four-colour problem - early history 7: Colouring maps on surfaces 8: Ideas from algebra and topology 9: The four-colour problem - to 1936 10: The factorization of graphs Appendix 1: Graph theory since 1936 Appendix 2: Bibliographical notes Appendix 3: Bibliography: 1736-1936
