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Matroids—the Engineers’ Revenge

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Matroids are applied in electric engineering for over 30 years. These applications motivated the investigation of some new, pure matroidal questions. Such results are surveyed for readers with mathematical (rather than engineering) background.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1521, Budapest, P.O.B. 91, Hungary

    András Recski

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  1. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332-0205, USA

    William Cook

  2. Institute of Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary

    László Lovász

  3. Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics, University of Bonn, Lennéstr. 2, 53113, Bonn, Germany

    Jens Vygen

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Recski, A. (2009). Matroids—the Engineers’ Revenge. In: Cook, W., Lovász, L., Vygen, J. (eds) Research Trends in Combinatorial Optimization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76796-1_18

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