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The Graph Theory which is actually useful has been absorbed into Computer Science, and long abandoned by Mathematics.

• wynand 17y ago
  I strongly disagree (as a post-grad working on Graph Theory). Mathematics has never abandoned Graph Theory and no Graph Theoretician I've met would ever consider Graph Theory to be a part of Computer Science. I take issue with the "actually useful" part. Had we been early 20th century citizens, you might have said that about number theory, but where would modern cryptography be without it?
  • Dilpil 17y ago
    Well I speak from my own experiences, other universities may divide things differently. But here it seems the Math folk are concerned with Graphs for the elegant connections they have to Abstract Algebra, whereas using Graphs to solve logistics problems is more the domain of Computer Science. If you have some interesting examples of practical graph theory done by the math department, I would love to hear them. And to clarify, there is nothing wrong with non useful Math.
    • andreyf 17y ago
      And to clarify, there is nothing wrong with non useful Math. You mean: there is nothing wrong with not yet useful Math. Math is always useful for finding Truth, and only sometimes useful when scientists find phenomena which can be described by it.
• jfarmer 17y ago
  That's wrong.