American mathematician
Ping Zhang is a mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University and the author of multiple textbooks on graph theory and mathematical proof.[1]
Zhang earned a master's degree in 1989 from the University of Jordan, working there on ring theory with Hasan Al-Ezeh.[1]
She completed her Ph.D. in 1995 at Michigan State University. Her dissertation, in algebraic combinatorics, was Subposets of Boolean Algebras, and was supervised by Bruce Sagan.[1][2]
After a short-term position at the University of Texas at El Paso, she joined the Western Michigan faculty in 1996.[1]
Books
Zhang is the author of:
- Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (with Gary Chartrand and A. D. Polimeni, Addison-Wesley, 2002; 2nd ed., 2007; 3rd ed., 2012)
- Introduction to Graph Theory (with Gary Chartrand, McGraw-Hill, 2004; Chinese ed., 2006); revised as A First Course in Graph Theory (Dover, 2012)[3]
- Chromatic Graph Theory (with Gary Chartrand, CRC Press, 2008)[4]
- Graphs & Digraphs (by Gary Chartrand and Linda Lesniak, with Zhang added as a co-author on the 5th ed., CRC Press, 2010)[5]
- Discrete Mathematics (with Gary Chartrand, Waveland Press, 2011)
- Covering Walks in Graphs (with Futaba Fujie, Springer, 2014)
- Color-Induced Graph Colorings (Springer, 2015)[6]
- The Fascinating World of Graph Theory (with Arthur T. Benjamin and Gary Chartrand, Princeton University Press, 2015)[7]
- A Kaleidoscopic View of Graph Colorings (Springer, 2016)[8]
- How to Label a Graph (with Gary Chartrand and Cooroo Egan, Springer, 2019) MR3932147[9]
- Irregularity in Graphs (with Akbar Ali and Gary Chartrand, Springer, 2021) MR4292275
She is also the co-editor of:
- Handbook of Graph Theory (originally edited by Jonathan L. Gross and Jay Yellen, with Zhang added as a co-editor on the 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2013)
