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A graph is completely determined by specifying either its adjacency structure or its incidence structure. These specifications provide far more efficient ways of representing a large or complicated graph than a pictorial representation. Because computers are more adept at manipulating numbers than at recognizing pictures, it is standard practice to communicate the specification of a graph to a computer in matrix form.
“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.”
Isaiah, xxx,8, The Bible
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Foulds, L.R. (1992). Matrices. In: Graph Theory Applications. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0933-1_6
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