Randić, Milan On history of the Randić index and emerging hostility toward chemical graph theory. (English) Zbl 1150.01007 MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. 59, No. 1, 5-124 (2008). The article contains Milan Randić’s recollections on the history of the graph invariant which nowadays is commonly referred to as the Randić index (the other name is: connectivity index). The author expresses his opinion on the criticism (or, as he says: ‘hostility’) of the current applications of graph theory in chemistry. Reviewer: Ivan Gutman (Kragujevac) Cited in 44 Documents MSC: 01A65 Development of contemporary mathematics 01A99 History of mathematics and mathematicians Keywords:connectivity index; chemical graph theory; chemistry PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{M. Randić}, MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. 59, No. 1, 5--124 (2008; Zbl 1150.01007)