Re: In Version 8, Combinatorial&GraphTheory functions
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- Subject: [mg120702] Re: In Version 8, Combinatorial&GraphTheory functions
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 02:53:27 -0400 (EDT)
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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 > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Re: In Version 8, Combinatorial&GraphTheory functions confuse me completely
- From: Ralph Dratman <ralph.dratman@gmail.com>
- Re: In Version 8, Combinatorial&GraphTheory functions confuse me completely