Shortest Connectivity

• Two Classical Optimization Problems.- Gauss’ Question.- What Does Solution Mean?.- Network Design Problems.- A New Challenge: The Phylogeny.- An Analysis of Steiner’s Problem in Phylogenetic Spaces.- Tree Building Algorithms.

From the reviews of the first edition:"The aim of this graduate-level text is to summarize mathematical concepts concerned with problems of shortest connectivity, and to demonstrate important applications of the theory, in particular in biology. … The book contains extensive references and gives rise to many problems for further research. … Examples are discussed in the history of evolution, taxonomy, historical linguistics and others." (Günther Karigl, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1086, 2006)