Ping Zhang (graph theorist)

Ping Zhang is a mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University and the author of multiple textbooks on graph theory and mathematical proof.^[1]

Zhang earned a master's degree in 1989 from the University of Jordan, working there on ring theory with Hasan Al-Ezeh.^[1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1995 at Michigan State University. Her dissertation, in algebraic combinatorics, was Subposets of Boolean Algebras, and was supervised by Bruce Sagan.^[1][2]

After a short-term position at the University of Texas at El Paso, she joined the Western Michigan faculty in 1996.^[1]

Books

Zhang is the author of:

• Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (with Gary Chartrand and A. D. Polimeni, Addison-Wesley, 2002; 2nd ed., 2007; 3rd ed., 2012)
• Introduction to Graph Theory (with Gary Chartrand, McGraw-Hill, 2004; Chinese ed., 2006); revised as A First Course in Graph Theory (Dover, 2012)^[3]
• Chromatic Graph Theory (with Gary Chartrand, CRC Press, 2008)^[4]
• Graphs & Digraphs (by Gary Chartrand and Linda Lesniak, with Zhang added as a co-author on the 5th ed., CRC Press, 2010)^[5]
• Discrete Mathematics (with Gary Chartrand, Waveland Press, 2011)
• Covering Walks in Graphs (with Futaba Fujie, Springer, 2014)
• Color-Induced Graph Colorings (Springer, 2015)^[6]
• The Fascinating World of Graph Theory (with Arthur T. Benjamin and Gary Chartrand, Princeton University Press, 2015)^[7]
• A Kaleidoscopic View of Graph Colorings (Springer, 2016)^[8]
• How to Label a Graph (with Gary Chartrand and Cooroo Egan, Springer, 2019)^[9]

She is also the co-editor of:

• Handbook of Graph Theory (originally edited by Jonathan L. Gross and Jay Yellen, with Zhang added as a co-editor on the 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2013)

References

1. Ping Zhang, Professor of Mathematics, Western Michigan University, retrieved 2018-05-29
2. Ping Zhang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Review of A First Course in Graph Theory:
   • Saccoman, John T. (December 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
4. Reviews of Chromatic Graph Theory:
   • Bóna, Miklós (December 2008), "Review", MAA Reviews
   • de Werra, D. (2009), Mathematical Reviews, MR 2450569{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Semanišin, Gabriel, zbMATH, Zbl 1169.05001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
5. Reviews of Graphs & Digraphs (5th ed):
   • Saccoman, John T. (June 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
   • White, Arthur T., zbMATH, Zbl 1211.05001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
6. Review of Color-Induced Graph Colorings:
   • Steffen, Eckhard, zbMATH, Zbl 1365.05006{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
7. Reviews of The Fascinating World of Graph Theory:
   • Hunacek, Mark (January 2015), "Review", MAA Reviews
   • Bultheel, Adhemar (September 2015), "Review", Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society
   • Glass, Darren B. (January 2016), American Mathematical Monthly, 123 (1): 106–112, doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.1.106, S2CID 218548357{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Cereceda, Luis (October 2016), The Mathematical Gazette, 100 (549): 569–570, doi:10.1017/mag.2016.152, S2CID 164447902{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Green, Frederic (December 2016), ACM SIGACT News, 47 (4): 18–21, doi:10.1145/3023855.3023862, S2CID 31121135{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Edwards, Keith J., Mathematical Reviews, MR 3307972{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Delgado, Alberto Luis, zbMATH, Zbl 1317.05001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
8. Reviews of A Kaleidoscopic View of Graph Colorings:
   • Asplund, John, Mathematical Reviews, MR 3467611{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Puleo, Gregory J., zbMATH, Zbl 1353.05003{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
9. Review of How to Label a Graph:
   • Lesniak, Linda, zbMATH, Zbl 1457.05002{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)