Hi all, i searched on google and can't seem to find this discussed before.<p>Does anyone know of a great book to self study graph theory? I studied it in school a while ago, but now i realized that graph theory is very important to algorithms.<p>Thanks a lot for any suggestions!<p>Jason
You should try 'Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition)' i had lots of fun with that one :).<p>note: fun == countless nights solving problems :P<p>note2: link to the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Part-Graph-3rd-Pt-5/dp/0201361183/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254875902&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Part-Graph-3rd-Pt-5/dp/0201...</a>
These are good books for graph based algorithms, which may well be what you're looking for. But for a more proof based approach you could take a look at this:
<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HuDFMwZOwcsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=HuDFMwZOwcsC&printsec=f...</a>
There is a book "Graph Theory" by Reinhard Diestel. There used to be an online version as a pdf, but it seems to be gone now. The Archive has it:
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/diestel/books/graph.theory/GraphTheoryIII.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/...</a>
(the pdf is almost 3 Mb).