ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

graph theory

Graph theory is about looking at things in a different way! Instead of people or things, think of them as points or circles. Now, imagine connecting the points or circles with lines. That's a graph! Graph theory is just the study of these different points and lines and all the different ways they can be connected. Graph theory is a way of looking at how things are connected to each other. For example, in a city, the roads are like lines, and the places they pass through are like points. You can learn a lot about how a city is connected by looking at the points and the lines on a graph!