Ping Zhang

Ping Zhang is a mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University and the author of many textbooks on graph theory and mathematical proof.

Zhang earned a master's degree in 1989 from the University of Jordan, working there on ring theory with Hasan Al-Ezeh. 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.

After a short-term position at the University of Texas at El Paso, she joined the Western Michigan faculty in 1996.

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) Chromatic Graph Theory (with Gary Chartrand, CRC Press, 2008) Graphs & Digraphs (by Gary Chartrand and Linda Lesniak, with Zhang added as a co-author on the 5th ed., CRC Press, 2010) Discrete Mathematics (with Gary Chartrand, Waveland Press, 2011) Covering Walks in Graphs (with Futaba Fujie, Springer, 2014) Color-Induced Graph Colorings (Springer, 2015) The Fascinating World of Graph Theory (with Arthur T. Benjamin and Gary Chartrand, Princeton University Press, 2015) A Kaleidoscopic View of Graph Colorings (Springer, 2016) How to Label a Graph (with Gary Chartrand and Cooroo Egan, Springer, 2019) Irregularity in Graphs (with Akbar Ali and Gary Chartrand, Springer, 2021)

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)