Download or read book Shortest Connectivity written by Dietmar Cieslik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim in this graduate level text is to outline the key mathematical concepts that underpin these important questions in applied mathematics. These concepts involve discrete mathematics (particularly graph theory), optimization, computer science, and several ideas in biology.