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In his paper [w.11] entitled “On the abstract properties of linear dependence” published in 1935, H. Whitney defined systems called “matroids” and endowed them with certain properties abstracted from coordinatized vector spaces. The next notable contribution to “matroid theory” did not make its appearance until 1958–59 with three papers by W. T. Tutte; his work was revised and reappeared [t.6] in 1965.
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Graver, J.E., Watkins, M.E. (1977). Matroid Theory. In: Combinatorics with Emphasis on the Theory of Graphs. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 54. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9914-1_10
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