Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved - Softcover

Wilson, Robin

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

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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