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

Wilson, Robin

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ISBN 10: 0713996706 ISBN 13: 9780713996708

Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2002

Riassunto

The problem is simply stated, and involves the colouring of maps. Can every map be coloured with at most four colours so that neighbouring countries are coloured differently?

First posed 150 years ago, it took more than a century of colouring maps and developing the necessary theoretical machinery before the result was established with certainty. Even then, difficult philosophical questions remained.

With elegance and clarity, Robin Wilson explains the problem and the proof.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Allen Lane
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0713996706
• ISBN 13: 9780713996708
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288