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

Wilson, Robin

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ISBN 10: 014100908X ISBN 13: 9780141009087

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2003

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 014100908X
• ISBN 13: 9780141009087
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288