Working with Lowell

Abstract

I have known Lowell Beineke for almost fifty years. Our first joint paper, on edge-colorings of graphs, was initiated in 1971, and since then we have produced further articles and nine books on graph theory, with another two books currently in progress. In this note I present some personal reminiscences and describe our collaborations over these years, as graph theory and combinatorics expanded from minority interests to a central part of contemporary mathematics.