Rating:  Summary: My favorite book on graph theory Review: This book is packed full. There are 1172 problems listed, hundreds of theorems with their proofs, and helpful diagrams on almost every page. Based on my searches through a lot of math books, this is the best graph theory book around. Well-laid out, attractive, with an extensive glossary, index, and list of references. He lists the following books as his own recommendations: Introductory: Chartrand -- Graphs as Mathematical Models, Clark/Holten -- A First Look at Graph Theory, Trudeau -- Introduction to Graph Theory, Wilson -- Introduction to Graph Theory, Wilson/Watkins -- Graphs: An introductory Approach, Intermediate: Bondy/Murty -- Graph Theory with Applications, Chartrand/Lesniak --Graphs and Digraphs, Gould -- Graph Theory, Gross/Yellen -- Graph Theory, Harary -- Graph Theory, Ore - Theory of Graphs, Advanced: Berge -- Graphs, Bollobas -- Graph Theory: An Introductory Course, Bollobas -- Modern Graph Theory, Diestal -- Graph Theory, Zykov -- Fundamentals of Graph Theory.I agree with West's recommendations, but I would put West's book ahead of all of them.
Rating:  Summary: Error prone and bad explanation Review: This book presents lemmas and theorems with careless, unclear, and error-prone proofs. You can actually see a tons of errors in the web page of the book. West is a bad writer !
Rating:  Summary: What the??? Review: This is one of the worst books that I have read. Either I dont understand this subject or there is something drstically wrong with this book. I used "Google" to find topics in Graph theory and could understand the topics but could'nt understand what this guy wrote.
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