English Explanatory Dictionary

Herschel graph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A bipartite undirected graph with 11 vertices and 18 edges that is the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph.

Word forms

Herschel graph

Etymology

From Herschel (“a surname”) + graph, after British astronomer Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836–1907), who identified the associated polyhedron (an enneahedron) as one for which there is no solution to the icosian game.

Synonyms

Herschel's graph
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