Re: In Version 8, Combinatorial&GraphTheory functions
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- Subject: [mg120708] Re: In Version 8, Combinatorial&GraphTheory functions
- From: Yves Klett <yves.klett at googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 02:12:22 -0400 (EDT)
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I'd second the thoughts and wishes on further homogenization of the available graph-related functionality. Switching between Combinatorica and integrated functions can get messy very quickly. Regards, Yves Am 04.08.2011 08:54, schrieb Murray Eisenberg: > Are you talking about Combinatorica (rather than Symbolica)? > > The Combinatorica add-on package that is shipped with Mathematica is > very well documented by Pemmaraju & Skiena in their book "Computational > Discrete Mathematica: Combinatorics and Graph Theory with Mathematica". > In fact, Combinatorica was originally a separate add-on by Steven Skiena > and was subsequently incorporated as a "standard" add-on to Mathematica > by Wolfram Research. > > However, the functionality documented there is definitely NOT the > current suite of kernel functions such as GraphPlot (present since > Mathematica 6) and Graph (new in 8). > > These newer functions, unfortunately, do NOT provide the same > functionality as the older Combinatorica package. > > I really do believe that what WRI has done in bring the > graph-theoretical stuff from an add-on into the kernel is still quite > half-baked and utterly incomplete as contrasted with much that was and > is available in Combinatorica. > > I've been complaining about this since GraphPlot appeared in Mathematica > 6. Maybe some day WRI will complete the migration. But right now the > state of handling graphs is quite unsatisfactory. > > > On 8/3/11 7:21 PM, Ralph Dratman wrote: >> Since the documentation for Symbolica is said to be best encountered >> in the form of a relatively expensive, out-of-print book, I'd like to >> know if that book will be compatible with the new built-in (but >> limited) functionality. >> >> If the book will not be compatible, will there be more Symbolica >> functions, and more matching documentation (!), added to Mathematica >> over time? >> >> Thank you. >> >> Ralph Dratman >> >
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- From: Ralph Dratman <ralph.dratman@gmail.com>
- Re: In Version 8, Combinatorial&GraphTheory functions confuse me completely