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Matroids were initially conceived as a generalization of graphs and linear independence in vector spaces, and they were introduced in the seminal paper by Whitney (1935) where he laid the foundations of the core in matroid theory.
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Pitsoulis, L. (2014). Introduction. In: Topics in Matroid Theory. SpringerBriefs in Optimization. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8957-3_1
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