Trees
Trees by Jean-Pierre Serreby Jean-Pierre Serre
Shares rank 14 of 20 mathematics textbooks by recommenders
Readers who work through it praise its proofs, such as one on group actions on Cayley graphs. No critical comments were recorded.
Readers who work through it praise its proofs, such as one on group actions on Cayley graphs. No critical comments were recorded.
3 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 3
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 3 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Proof on group actions on Cayley graphs
“I especially liked the proof in that book that looks at the action of a group on its Cayley graph”
Comment from 16 Sep 2026 in “Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100” Readers enjoy it while reading
“I'm reading and liking his book just called "Trees"”
Comment from 16 Sep 2026 in “Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100”
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| Algorithms for Optimizationby Kochenderfer and Wheeler | 10 | 1 | 91% | 1 | — | — |
| Mathematics for Computer Scienceby Lehman, Leighton and Meyer | 8 | 4 | 67% | 1 | — | — |
| Numerical Recipesby Press et al. | 7 | 1 | 88% | 5 | — | — |
| Concrete Mathematicsby Graham, Knuth and Patashnik | 7 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| Treesby Jean-Pierre SerreThis page | 3 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
2 of the 3 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I especially liked the proof in that book that looks at the action of a group on its Cayley graph”
“I'm reading and liking his book just called "Trees"”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.