Authors: Robin Wilson, John J. Watkins, & David J. Parks 

“Graph Theory in America” focuses on the development of graph theory in North America from 1876 to 1976.

At the beginning of this period, James Joseph Sylvester, perhaps the finest mathematician in the English-speaking world, took up his appointment as the first professor of mathematics at the Johns Hopkins University, where his inaugural lecture outlined connections between graph theory, algebra, and chemistry—shortly after, he introduced the word graph in our modern sense.