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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 Aryan R

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Aug 30, 2020

The course is good overall but the proofs of almost all the theorems are not very intuitive or convincing. If you are taking this I suggest doing this with mit's 16.042's graph theory lectures.

By Alex C

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Jan 1, 2021

Excellent, i started this course and then it disappeared from my list after a long pause! i was looking for it again for ages then refound it by chance....rewatched everything again and completed it. Enjoyed it immensely. Many thanks!

By Tarit G

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Jun 6, 2020

One of the best courses I have taken. With the help of interesting graphical puzzles, the course is an awesome one to learn Graph theory. The topics covered ranges from basics to advanced graph theory. I really recommend this course.

By T K

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May 23, 2020

I got my new field of interest after going through this course. There were many WOW moments in this course. Problems were closely related to real world.

By Pazhamalai A

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May 23, 2020

This course introduces us to a broad range of topics in graph theory. A number of classical problems were solved in graph theory were explained.

By Zhen X

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Jun 14, 2020

This course can help students to learn many important and non-trivial ideas and theorems in graph theory in just 5 weeks!

By Mohannad A

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Apr 26, 2020

I'm very happy to pass this course. This is one of my favorite courses. Thanks for all tutors in this course.

By Chandrasekhara S V

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Jul 19, 2020

Course is very nice and informative. Course structure with puzzles in between is very interesting.

By Mukul K R

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Jun 17, 2020

the course is well designed and covers all the topics that are required to learn Graph Theory.

By Amit K

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Jul 11, 2020

course is cover all the important aspects and the basics of the introduction to graph theory

By Dr. L n S

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May 26, 2020

It is easy to understand Graph theory which is very useful in all the fields of human

By Agrover112

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Oct 31, 2019

Daamn this is perhaps the best introductory course on Graph Theory for noobs

By Jayagopal R

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Jul 6, 2020

The examples are interesting to learn. Overall it was a nice experience.

By Kristen P

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Feb 5, 2020

Can't recommend this course enough. Fun yet challenging content!

By kartish j

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Sep 10, 2019

The Puzzles are very challenging and interesting thank you :)

By Kuldeep K

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May 15, 2020

A great introduction to Graphs, learned a lot of new things.

By Ajit B

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Nov 8, 2017

Excellent course, I do wish there is an advanced follow-up.

By Rajkumar R

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May 22, 2020

It was fun learning. I enjoyed learning this course

By Sourav M

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Nov 19, 2017

Basic concepts covered very nicely and clearly.

By Matthew M

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Sep 12, 2017

Excellent course, well-designed and executed.

By Himanshu J

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Apr 1, 2019

excellent explanation to the topics covered

By BHARAT H S

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May 22, 2020

very interesting and knowledgeable course.

By Shishir J

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Aug 19, 2019

A very interesting and challenging course

By Priya S Y

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May 22, 2020

this was one of the best course i found

By Venugopal B

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May 1, 2018

Superb, very accessible to laymen