Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved - Couverture souple

Wilson, Robin

 
9780141009087: Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved

Synopsis

What is the least possible number of colours needed to fill in any map, so that neighbouring countries are always coloured differently? It sounded simple, but professional mathematicians were to spend over a century solving the puzzle.

Introducing the mathematicians behind the mathematics, among them a bishop, an astronomer, a botanist, an obsessive golfer and a bridegroom who spent his honeymoon colouring maps.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robin Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the Open University and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.

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