Books in the Johns Hopkins Studies in the Mathematical Sciences series

The book concludes with a survey of recent developments on coloring graphs on surfaces.

William Trotter concentrates on combinatorial topics for finite partially ordered sets, and with dimension theory serving as a unifying theme, research on partially ordered sets or posets is linked to more traditional topics in combinatorial mathematics.

Theoretical analysis is supported by examples from different branches of physics: electrodynamics, fluid mechanics, acoustics, optics, and the mechanics of solids.