Four colors suffice : how the map problem was solved
Wilson, Robin J.2014
Book
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 book tells the amazing story of how the "map problem" was solved.
Main title:
Four colors suffice : how the map problem was solved / Robin Wilson ; with a new foreword by Ian Stewart.
Author:
Wilson, Robin J., author
Edition:
Revised colour edition.
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2014.Princeton Princeton University Press, [2014]
Collation:
xv,199 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
First published: London : Allen Lane, 2002, under title Four colours suffice.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface to the revised colour edition -- Preface to the original edition -- The four-colour problem -- The problem is posed -- Euler's famous formula -- Cayley revives the problem... -- ...and Kempe solves it -- A chapter of accidents -- A bombshell from Durham -- Crossing the Atlantic -- A new dawn breaks -- Success! -- Is it a proof? -- Chronology of events -- Glossary.
ISBN:
9780691158228 (paperback)0691158223 (paperback)
Dewey class:
511.56
Language:
English
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BRN:
269111