> Perhaps I was wrong to expect mention of explicit discsussion of spectral graph theory?
I mean, this is a link to a pdf titled "chapter 3" buried deep in the directories of someone's academic homepage. There's no context about who the author is (is it a student project from a course? Part of a dissertation? notes for a draft of a book?), except that I think I can extract their name from the URL. It's pretty hard to tell, thus, who the desired audience is or what the aim of it is.
So whether one should expect one thing or another from this random pdf... I mean, without knowing more, what is there to reasonably expect?
For instance (and I can imagine this because I've taught an undergraduate course on graph theory, among other undergrad math courses), if these are notes from a course, then the instructor may have some good, context specific reasons for focusing on some topics while not going into details on others. But, as I said above, it's really impossible to know because this has just been plunked on HN with no context, as if that is somehow valuable.
I think the desired audience is the student, professor, and students' peers in University of Utah's MATH 2270 Linear Algebra class. If you walk up the URL, the context presents itself more.
And true, these projects have limitations/constraints, and I am happy that the author took LA and learned more about LA and Graph Theory. I didn't know what to expect, but assumed Graphs + LA ==> Let's talk about spectral graph theory -- well, because I hoped for it.
I mean, this is a link to a pdf titled "chapter 3" buried deep in the directories of someone's academic homepage. There's no context about who the author is (is it a student project from a course? Part of a dissertation? notes for a draft of a book?), except that I think I can extract their name from the URL. It's pretty hard to tell, thus, who the desired audience is or what the aim of it is.
So whether one should expect one thing or another from this random pdf... I mean, without knowing more, what is there to reasonably expect?
For instance (and I can imagine this because I've taught an undergraduate course on graph theory, among other undergrad math courses), if these are notes from a course, then the instructor may have some good, context specific reasons for focusing on some topics while not going into details on others. But, as I said above, it's really impossible to know because this has just been plunked on HN with no context, as if that is somehow valuable.