Ping Zhang (graph theorist)
{{short description|American mathematician}}
Ping Zhang is a mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University and the author of multiple textbooks on graph theory and mathematical proof.{{r|home}}
Zhang earned a master's degree in 1989 from the University of Jordan, working there on ring theory with Hasan Al-Ezeh.{{r|home}}
She completed her Ph.D. in 1995 at Michigan State University. Her dissertation, in algebraic combinatorics, was Subposets of Boolean Algebras, and was supervised by Bruce Sagan.{{r|home|mgp}}
After a short-term position at the University of Texas at El Paso, she joined the Western Michigan faculty in 1996.{{r|home}}
Books
Zhang is the author of:
- Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (with Gary Chartrand and A. D. Polimeni, Addison-Wesley, 2002; 2nd ed., 2007; 3rd ed., 2012)
- Introduction to Graph Theory (with Gary Chartrand, McGraw-Hill, 2004; Chinese ed., 2006); revised as A First Course in Graph Theory (Dover, 2012){{r|1c}}
- Chromatic Graph Theory (with Gary Chartrand, CRC Press, 2008){{r|cgt}}
- Graphs & Digraphs (by Gary Chartrand and Linda Lesniak, with Zhang added as a co-author on the 5th ed., CRC Press, 2010){{r|gd}}
- Discrete Mathematics (with Gary Chartrand, Waveland Press, 2011)
- Covering Walks in Graphs (with Futaba Fujie, Springer, 2014)
- Color-Induced Graph Colorings (Springer, 2015){{r|cigc}}
- The Fascinating World of Graph Theory (with Arthur T. Benjamin and Gary Chartrand, Princeton University Press, 2015){{r|fw}}
- A Kaleidoscopic View of Graph Colorings (Springer, 2016){{r|kal}}
- How to Label a Graph (with Gary Chartrand and Cooroo Egan, Springer, 2019) {{mr|id=3932147}}{{r|hlg}}
- Irregularity in Graphs (with Akbar Ali and Gary Chartrand, Springer, 2021) {{mr|id=4292275}}
She is also the co-editor of:
- Handbook of Graph Theory (originally edited by Jonathan L. Gross and Jay Yellen, with Zhang added as a co-editor on the 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2013)
References
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Review of A First Course in Graph Theory:
- {{citation|title=Review|first=John T.|last=Saccoman|date=December 2012|journal=MAA Reviews|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/a-first-course-in-graph-theory}}
Review of Color-Induced Graph Colorings:
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Eckhard|last=Steffen|zbl=1365.05006}}
Reviews of Chromatic Graph Theory:
- {{citation|title=Review|first=Miklós|last=Bóna|date=December 2008|journal=MAA Reviews|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/chromatic-graph-theory}}
- {{citation|title=none|first=D.|last=de Werra|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=2450569|year=2009}}
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Gabriel|last=Semanišin|zbl=1169.05001}}
Reviews of The Fascinating World of Graph Theory:
- {{citation|title=Review|first=Mark|last=Hunacek|date=January 2015|journal=MAA Reviews|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-fascinating-world-of-graph-theory}}
- {{citation|title=Review|url=https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~adhemar.bultheel/WWW/BMS/r310.php|first=Adhemar|last=Bultheel|journal=Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society|date=September 2015}}
- {{citation|title=none|first=Darren B.|last=Glass|journal=American Mathematical Monthly|volume=123|issue=1|date=January 2016|pages=106–112|doi=10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.1.106|s2cid=218548357}}
- {{citation|last=Cereceda|first=Luis|date=October 2016|doi=10.1017/mag.2016.152|issue=549|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|pages=569–570|title=none|volume=100|s2cid=164447902}}
- {{citation|last=Green|first=Frederic|date=December 2016|doi=10.1145/3023855.3023862|issue=4|journal=ACM SIGACT News|pages=18–21|title=none|volume=47|s2cid=31121135}}
- {{citation|title=none|first=Keith J.|last=Edwards|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=3307972}}
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Alberto Luis|last=Delgado|zbl=1317.05001}}
Reviews of Graphs & Digraphs (5th ed):
- {{citation|title=Review|first=John T.|last=Saccoman|date=June 2012|journal=MAA Reviews|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/graphs-digraphs}}
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Arthur T.|last=White|zbl=1211.05001}}
Review of How to Label a Graph:
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Linda|last=Lesniak|zbl=1457.05002}}
Reviews of A Kaleidoscopic View of Graph Colorings:
- {{citation|title=none|first=John|last=Asplund|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=3467611}}
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Gregory J.|last=Puleo|zbl=1353.05003}}
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