From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-10 08:42:41
> I asked the news:sci.math to tell me what matroids are in simple
> terms, but all they said was "Z(S[m]; e^t, 1, 1, 1 ... ) == (1/m!) sigma
> (h E S[m]) e ^ (t lambda[1](h))" blah blah blah.
>
> You can try reading the thread "What's a matroid?" ;-)
The only thing I recall about matroids is that greedy algorithms are
guaranteed to produce the optimal solution when the graph is a matroid.
Not much of a help, I realize.
-- Peter Dimov Multi Media Ltd.