علم نظرية الرسومات نشأ حديثا وأضحى وسيلة رياضية مهمة في عدد من المواد المختلفة من بحوث العمليات والكيمياء إلى علم المورثات واللغويات ومن الهندسة الكهربائية والجيولوجية إلى علم الإجتماع وعلم العمارة. وفي الوقت ذاته نشأ هذا العلم كنظام رياضي له أهميته الخاصة
Robin James Wilson (born December 1943) is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University, a Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford[1] and, as of 2006, professor of geometry at Gresham College, London, where he has also been a visiting professor. On occasion, he guest teaches at Colorado College. From January 1999 to September 2003 Robin Wilson was editor-in-chief of the European Mathematical Society Newsletter.[2] He is the son of Harold Wilson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He has two daughters: Catherine and Jennifer.