This was a book intended "for final-year undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, computer science, engineering and operations research." So not second-year art college students, a few pages in my head started to hurt and I guess it would be a waste of time - within the constraints of this project - to attempt to go about having a full understanding of graph theory, as that was never the main focus or intention of this project in the first place. The relevance of this was its reference to the importance of the organization and categorization of collections - sets - of data/information. The use of graphs as a way of the non-mathematical number genius understanding the value, and contained elements of a set....
"The notion of set; a set is collection of distinct objects of any nature, which are called its elements or numbers." (Cache, B; 1979)
A majority of the book is an explanation of various forms of organizing sets in numbers and categories with no visual element, and as someone with a non-mathematic brain, I was obviously drawn to the visual elements. Here are some scans from the books diagrams/graph examples...
So basically, this books interested me in exploring a way I could use shapes to say, describe numerical elements or engage a non-maths/science orientated audience in some form of maths theory, however simple.
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