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About the Course

We invite you to a fascinating journey into Graph Theory — an area which connects the elegance of painting and the rigor of mathematics; is simple, but not unsophisticated. Graph Theory gives us, both an easy way to pictorially represent many major mathematical results, and insights into the deep theories behind them. In this online course, among other intriguing applications, we will see how GPS systems find shortest routes, how engineers design integrated circuits, how biologists assemble genomes, why a political map can always be colored using a few colors. We will study Ramsey Theory which proves that in a large system, complete disorder is impossible! By the end of the course, we will implement an algorithm which finds an optimal assignment of students to schools. This algorithm, developed by David Gale and Lloyd S. Shapley, was later recognized by the conferral of Nobel Prize in Economics. As prerequisites we assume only basic math (e.g., we expect you to know what is a square or how to add fractions), basic programming in python (functions, loops, recursion), common sense and curiosity. Our intended audience are all people that work or plan to work in IT, starting from motivated high school students....

Top reviews

SU

Feb 27, 2019

Appreciate the structure and the explanations with examples. The practice tool before every lesson not makes it fun to learn but also sets the student in the context and can anticipate the concept.

RH

Nov 16, 2017

Was pretty fun and gave a good intro to graph theory. Definitely felt inspired to go deeper and understood the most basic proof ideas. The later lectures can spike in difficulty though. Very nice!

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By Thang X N

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Jun 15, 2020

The last week is very confusing, other is good

By Ritik A

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Feb 25, 2020

It went haywire in the end

By Robert N

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Mar 11, 2019

Unfortunately, several of the lectures were challenging to follow, and I found this course to be relatively less valuable compared to previous courses in the intro to discrete math specialization. Also, the examinations were fairly trivial to complete even without watching the lectures. Thus, the worst of both worlds: lectures that did not help me to learn paired with examinations that did not require mastery of the material.

By Darren C

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Dec 3, 2020

This was a really difficult course to follow, maily due to the the poor communication of the material. For much of the course, I needed to look externally to gain the necessary understanding of the material. Overall, a poor effort.

By ahmed y

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Aug 16, 2020

there is no enough (indeed nothing at all) implementations of graphs and their algorithms

By jplavorr

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Aug 6, 2020

The Course is excellent until it arrives at week 5. For me, killed the course.

By Myo T

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Nov 2, 2020

Some content are unclear and lecturers did not explain.

By Arky Y

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Dec 3, 2019

Very few graphs for a graph course, hard to follow.

By DEV D

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Sep 28, 2020

not useful

By Marcelo E

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Feb 5, 2023

Extremely boring classes. I don't found any utility on taking this course since there are no real life applications at all. It's well known that graph theory have a lot of impact in modern days but we can't see any of that in this course. Also, it lacks any kind of mathematical rigurosity and examples are for kindergarden. Course is extremely easy but I decided to not finish because it really was a waste of time.

By Edwin S

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Jan 29, 2024

I do understand that the teachers did the best they could, but all together the quality is very poor.

By Harold

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Jan 14, 2022

Confusing course. Many concepts not explained well.

By LILAY T G

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Sep 9, 2020

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By Shikhar B

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Aug 20, 2020

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