Four Colors Suffice
How the Map Problem Was Solved - Revised Color Edition
On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan wrote a letter to a colleague, unaware that he was launching one of the most famous mathematical conundrums in history--one that would confound thousands of puzzlers for more than a century. This is the amazing story of how the map problem was solved. The problem posed in the letter came from a former student: What is the least possible number of colors needed to fill in any map (real or invented) so that neighboring counties are always colored differently? This deceptively simple question was of minimal interest to cartographers, who saw little need to limit how many colors they used. But the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-23756-5
- EAN: 9780691237565
- Produktnummer: 37170658
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 87 color illus. 18 halftones. 60 line illus. 2 maps.
- Reihenbandnummer: 30
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Robin WilsonWith a new foreword by Ian Stewart
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