Beautifully written and elegantly presented, this book is based on 10 lectures given at the CBMS workshop on spectral graph theory in June 1994 at Fresno State University. Chung's well-written... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This book is intended for the professional mathematician that want to learn about the misteries of the eigenspectrum of the graph laplacian. A lot of misteries, a lot of fun.
Elegant and coherent, but a bit dry and unmotivated
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This book is elegant and accessible, with a coherent presentation, but is a bit dry and unmotivated. The book would benefit from more applications, which should not be hard to find. I felt like Chapter 8 was the high point of the book, with a discussion of random walks, a matrix-tree theorem and invariant field theory. The researcher who needs an arsenal of technical results in a clear style will find it here; the student who desires some added perspective may come away somewhat dissatisfied.
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