Daily tweets about networks, graph theory, and related topics from @JohnDCook

Joined July 2013
Gallery of named graphs altermundus.fr/downloads/doc… // 104-page pdf from Alain Matthes
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A connected graph contains an Eulerian path iff there are zero or two nodes of odd degree.
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A Hamiltonian path visits each vertex in a graph exactly once.
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An Eulerian path traverses each edge in a graph exactly once.
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Some authors say graph theory started with Euler's solution to the Kӧnigsberg bridge problem in 1736.
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The diameter of a connected graph is the length of the longest geodesic path in the graph.
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If A is the adjacency matrix of a graph, the number of walks from i to j of length r is the ij-th entry of A^r.
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The density of a graph is the ratio of the actual number of edges to the maximum possible number of edges.
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The degree of a vertex is the number of edges connected to it.
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The number of spanning trees in a connected network w/ n nodes equals the product of the nonzero eigenvalues of its Laplacian, divided by n.
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DAG stands for directed acyclic graph.
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Kuratowski's theorem: Every non-planar graph contains at least one subgraph that is an expansion of K_5 or UG.
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UG denotes the utility graph, the complete bipartite graph with two groups of three vertices.
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