Matroid Theory and Its Applications : Lectures Given at a Summer School of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) Held in Varenna (Como), Italy, August 24 - September 2, 1980

Lectures: T.h. Brylawski: The Tutte Polynomial.- D.j.a. Welsh: Matroids And Combinatorial Optimisation.- Seminars: M. Barnabei, A. Brini, G.-c. Rota: Un’introduzione Alla Teoria Delle Funzioni Di Möbius.- A. Brini: Some Remarks On The Critical Problem.- J. Oxley: On 3-connected Matroids And Graphs.- R. Peele: The Poset Of Subpartitions And Cayley’s Formula For The Complexity Of A Complete Graph.- A. Recski: Engineering Applications Of Matroids.- T. Zaslavisky: Voltage-graphic Matroids. M. Barnabei, A. Brini, G.-c. Rota: Un’introduzione Alla Teoria Delle Funzioni Di Möbius -- A. Brini: Some Remarks On The Critical Problem -- T.h. Brylawski: The Tutte Polynomial -- J. Oxley: On 3-connected Matroids And Graphs -- R. Peele: The Poset Of Subpartitions And Cayley’s Formula For The Complexity Of A Complete Graph -- A. Recski: Engineering Applications Of Matroids -- D.j.a. Welsh: Matroids And Combinatorial Optimisation -- T. Zaslavisky: Voltage-graphic Matroids. A. Barlotti (ed.) Originally Published: Napoli: Liguori, 1980. Includes Bibliographical References. Front Matter....Pages i-iii Un'Introduzione Alla Teoria Delle Funzioni Di Möbius....Pages 1-104 Some Remarks on the Critical Problem....Pages 111-124 The Tutte Polynomial Part I: General Theory....Pages 125-275 On 3-Connected Matroids and Graphs....Pages 277-288 The Poset of Subpartitions and Cayley's Formula for the Complexity of a Complete Graph....Pages 289-297 Engineering Applications of Matroids - A Survey....Pages 300-321 Matroids and Combinatorial Optimisation....Pages 323-416 Voltage-Graphic Matroids....Pages 417-424