How to Use graph theory in a Sentence

graph theory

noun
  • This isn’t the first time that graph theory and Fourier analysis have met.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
  • This is a lot of discreet really clever stuff about algebra, about graph theory.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Euler’s efforts helped birth graph theory as a new field of mathematics.
    — Pavel Bykov, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That would imply that the graphs each had a very low eigenvalue, finally enabling them to exploit the link between Chowla’s conjecture and graph theory.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
  • For example, the fields of combinatorics (often described as the science of counting) and graph theory (the science of networks) tend to be highly concrete and visual.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The research team then applied graph theory—a method involving mathematical structures often used to study social networks—to analyze how different brain regions were connected and how those connections changed over time.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Last summer, two sets of graph theorists — Jin, Milojević, and Tomon in Europe, and Zhang at Stanford University — were enthusiastically making progress on one of graph theory’s most central questions.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026

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