graph theory
Americannoun
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Mathematics. the study and analysis of the points and lines with which graphs create representations of mathematical relationships.
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Computers. the representation of data using nonhierarchical structures based on nodes and the connections between them, utilized by many programming languages and algorithms.
Etymology
Origin of graph theory
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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They analyzed the multimodal MRI data using information and graph theory, and Griffa says that it is this novel combination of methods that yielded fresh insights.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023
By translating sequences of sounds from any given composition into a specific type of diagrams or graphs, the researchers were able to marshal the power of graph theory to calculate time irreversibility.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2020
She took off running with graph theory, Bullmore recalls, stretching its uses to new types of brain data.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 11, 2019
Urschel has been pursuing his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the offseason with a concentration on spectral graph theory, numerical linear algebra and machine learning.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2017
Urschel spent the past two off-seasons at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying advanced mathematics, including spectral graph theory, matrix algebra and computational finance.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2017
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