Special issue: 50th anniversary of the Wiener index
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Special issue: 50th anniversary of the Wiener index
zbMATH Open document ID: 0883.00010
published in: Discrete Applied Mathematics
publication date: 1998-03-05T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: dam
review text: The eight articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. This issue marks the 50th anniversary of the appearance of the paper 'Structural determination of paraffin boiling points' by Harold Wiener (1947), where he introduced the graph invariant that eventually became known as the Wiener index or Wiener number. The Wiener index is the first in a long series of so-called topological indices, numerical structure descriptors deduced from the molecular graph. Wiener introduced the index \(W\) as a measure of 'molecular branching'. Later Stiel and Todos, Hosoya, and finally Entringer, Jackson and Snyder (1976) studied this quantity in graph theory (graph distance, mean distance). This issue wants to emphasize the connections between graph theory and mathematical chemistry.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00B15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05-06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92-06
zbMATH DE Number: 1109896
zbMATH Keywords: Anniversary
zbMATH Keywords: Wiener index
zbMATH Keywords: Graph theory
zbMATH Keywords: Mathematica chemistry
zbMATH Keywords: Special issue
zbMATH Keywords: topological indices
zbMATH Keywords: mean distance
zbMATH Keywords: graph distance
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1109896