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Book Information
Author(s):
James G. Oxley
Title:
Matroid theory
Additional book information:
Oxford University Press, London 1992, xi + 532 pp., US$79.00. ISBN 0-19-853563-5
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- A. Bj\"orner, M. Las Vergnas, B. Sturmfels, N. White, and G. Ziegler, Oriented matroids, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1993.
- [5]
- J. P. S. Kung, A source book in matroid theory, Birkh\"auser, Boston, 1986.
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- E. Lawler, Combinatorial optimization\RM : networks and matroids, Holt, New York, 1976.
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- A. Recski, Matroid theory and its applications in electrical network theory and in statics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1989.
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- P. D. Seymour, Decomposition of regular matroids, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B \textbf{28} (1980), 305--359.
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- K. Truemper, Matroid decomposition, Academic Press, Boston, 1992.
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- W. T. Tutte, A homotopy theorem for matroids. {\rm I, II}, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. \textbf{88} (1958), 144--174.
- [11]
- D. J. A. Welsh, Matroid theory, Academic Press, London, 1976.
- [12]
- N. White, ed., Theory of matroids, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1986.
- [13]
- N. White, ed., Combinatorial geometries, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1987.
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- N. White, ed., Matroid applications, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1992.
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- H. Whitney, On the abstract properties of linear dependence, Amer. J. Math. \textbf{57} (1935), 509--533.
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Neil L.
White
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
30
(1994),
252-254.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00457-4
PII:
S 0273-0979(1994)00457-4
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