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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"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Princeton Science Library ;
128 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Revised Color Edition
- Preface to the Original Edition
- 1 The Four-Color Problem
- 2 The Problem Is Posed
- 3 Euler's Famous Formula
- 4 Cayley Revives the Problem . . .
- 5 . . . and Kempe Solves It
- 6 A Chapter of Accidents
- 7 A Bombshell from Durham
- 8 Crossing the Atlantic
- 9 A New Dawn Breaks
- 10 Success
- 11 Is It a Proof
- Chronology of Events
- Notes and References
- Glossary
- Picture Credits
- Index