Uppaluri Siva Ramachandra Murty,Uppaluri Siva Ramachandra Murty's entry
in the Brazilian Directory of Research Groups at the Brazilian Scientific and Technological Development Council (CNPq). Accessed on 2010-01-01.

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of computer scientists. Accessed on 2010-01-01. or U. S. R. Murty (as he prefers to write his name), is a

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of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization,

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.Cross Appointed and Adjunct Faculty Members
of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization,

Murty, U. S. R. entry
at MathSciNet U. S. R. Murty received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the

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, Calcutta, with a thesis on

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; his advisor was C. R. Rao. Murty is well known for his work in

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and

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, and mainly for being a co-author with

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of a textbook on graph theory. Murty has served as a managing editor and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B..

Selected publications

* John Adrian Bondy and U. S. R. Murty (1976), ''Graph Theory with Applications.'' North-Holland
Book's page
at the University of Paris VI. *John Adrian Bondy and U. S. R. Murty (1979), "Graph Theory and Related Topics." Academic Press Inc. . * U. S. R. Murty (1971) ''How Many Magic Configurations are There?'' The American Mathematical Monthly. * U. S. R. Murty (1971) ''Equicardinal matroids''. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B * U. S. R. Murty (1970) ''Matroids with Sylvester property''. ''

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