Building Bridges Between Mathematics and Computer Science

Discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science are closely linked research areas with strong impacts on applications and various other scientific disciplines. Both fields deeply cross fertilize each other. One of the persons who particularly contri

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BOLYA Y I SOCIETY T MATHEMATICA C L STUDIES Series Editor: Gábor Fejes Tóth Publication Board: Gyula O. H. Katona László Lovász Péter Pál Pálfy András Recski András Stipsicz Domokos Szász Managing Editor: Dezső˝ Miklós 1. Combinatorics, Paul Erdős is Eighty, Vol. 1 D. Miklós, V.T. Sós, T. Szőnyi (Eds.) 2. Combinatorics, Paul Erdős is Eighty, Vol. 2 D. Miklós, V.T. Sós, T. Szőnyi (Eds.) 3. Extremal Problems for Finite Sets P. Frankl, Z. Füredi, G. Katona, D. Miklós (Eds.) 4. Topology with Applications A. Császár (Ed.) 5. Approximation Theory and Function Series P. Vértesi, L. Leindler, Sz. Révész, J. Szabados, V. Totik (Eds.) 6. Intuitive Geometry I. Bárány, K. Böröczky (Eds.) 7. Graph Theory and Combinatorial Biology L. Lovász, A. Gyárfás, G. Katona, A. Recski (Eds.) 8. Low Dimensional Topology K. Böröczky, Jr., W. Neumann, A. Stipsicz (Eds.) 9. Random Walks P. Révész, B. Tóth (Eds.) 10. Contemporary Combinatorics B. Bollobás (Ed.) 11. Paul Erdős and His Mathematics I+II G. Halász, L. Lovász, M. Simonovits, V. T. Sós (Eds.) 12. Higher Dimensional Varieties and Rational Points K. Böröczky, Jr., J. Kollár, T. Szamuely (Eds.) 13. Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces B. Ozbagci, A. I. Stipsicz 14. A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 1 J. Horváth (Ed.) 15. More Sets, Graphs and Numbers E. Győri, G. Katona, L. Lovász (Eds.) 16. Entropy, Search, Complexity I. Csiszár, G. Katona, G. Tardos (Eds.) 17. Horizons of Combinatorics E. Győri, G. Katona, L. Lovász (Eds.) 18. Handbook of Large-Scale Random Networks B. Bollobás, R. Kozma, D. Miklós (Eds.)

Martin Grötschel Gyula O. H. Katona (Eds.)

Building Bridges Between Mathematics and Computer Science

 

JJÁNOS BOLY YAI MATHEMATICA C L SOCIETY T

Martin Grötschel

Managing Editor:

Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) Takustr. 7 14195 Berlin Germany e-mail: [email protected]

Gábor Sági Hungarian Academy of Sciences Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics Reáltanoda u. 13-15 Budapest 1053 Hungary e-mail: [email protected]

Gyula O. H. Katona Hungarian Academy of Sciences Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics Reáltanoda u. 13-15 Budapest 1053 Hungary e-mail: [email protected]

Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 05-XX, 68-XX

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008932353

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