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Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved
Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved
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Published:
7 August, 2003
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A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the solution to one of the world's most puzzling mathematical problems. The four-colour theorem states that every map in the world can be coloured with just four colours in such a way that neighbouring countries have different colours. One of the simplest problems to state, one of the hardest to solve, which took a century for mathematicians to prove. This book introduces the mathematicians behind the mathematics, among them a bishop, an astronomer, a botanist, an obsessive golfer and a bridegroom who spend his honeymoon colouring maps.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780141009087 |
| ISBN10 | 014100908X |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 271 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 22 x 199 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | New edition |
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Author's Bio
Robin Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the Open University and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.