Feature Column from the AMS

Matroids: The Value of Abstraction

6. References

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Notes:

An online bibliography of books about matroids is available.

Those who can access JSTOR can find some of the papers mentioned above there.

Acknowledgment

My thanks to Professor Leroy Dickey (University of Waterloo) for calling my attention to a picture of W.T. Tutte available on the University of Waterloo web site.