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Robin Wilson

Four Colors Suffice

How the Map Problem Was Solved - Revised Color Edition

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-15822-8
  • EAN: 9780691158228
  • Produktnummer: 14774695
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.0 cm 394 g
  • Auflage: Revised ed
  • Abbildungen: 2 Maps
  • Gewicht: 394
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


Robin Wilson is emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the Open University and emeritus professor of geometry at Gresham College, London. He has written and edited many books on topics ranging from graph theory and combinatorics, via sudoku, philately, and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, to the history of mathematics. He is currently president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

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