Wild guess.

Guess You-know-who.

1) Tom Marvolo Riddle - One of the founders of Hogwarts himself namely, Salazar Slytherin.

or

2) Voldemort is a split personality of Harry himself (my bet) - Another connection, Prof Snape giving off his life in the end to save Harry, thats the whole point of even Dumbledore to die in the hands of Snape. All the death eaters, malfoys, Blacks, are nothing but doing good in controlling Harry's other side. Sounds crazy huh?

Wow!

This was the description of one of the courses that was offered next semester :)

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT

550.672 Graph Theory

Spring 2007

Writing in Nature in 1878, J.J. Sylvester (the first professor of mathematics at the newly established Johns Hopkins University) coined the word “graph” to describe mathematical structures consisting of objects called “vertices,” some pairs of which are joined by “edges.” The word “graph” comes from “graphical formula” for an organic molecule. The vertices of a graph are abstractions of the atoms and the edges are abstractions of the bonds between the atoms. Today, graph theory is a vibrant area of research attracting the interests of pure and applied mathematicians as well as computer scientists.

In this course we will emphasize graph theory, i.e., our focus will be on developing the mathematical foundations of the subject. Heavy emphasis will be given to proof writing. Our topics include trees, connectivity, Eulerian and Hamiltonian cycles, matching, vertex/edge coloring, Ramsey theory and planar graphs.

Prerequisites: 550.171, and 110.201 or 550.291

Text: D.B. West, Introduction to Graph Theory, 2nd Edition

Time: MTW 10
Section 1: F 10:30

550.472 and 550.672 meet concurrently

Instructor: Edward Scheinerman
Whitehead 205
410 516-7210
ers@jhu.edu