Four Colors Suffice
How the Map Problem Was Solved
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The four-colour problem was one of the most famous and controversial conundrums ever known, and stumped thousands of puzzlers for over a century. It sounded simple: what is the least number of colours needed to fill in any map, so that neighbouring countries are always coloured differently? However, it would take over a hundred years for amateur problem - solvers and mathematicians alike to answer the question first posed by Francis Guthrie in 1852. And, even when a solution was finally found using computers, debate raged over whether this technology could ever provide the proof that traditional pen - and - paper calculations could. This is the gripping story of the race to solve the riddle - a tale of dedicated puzzlers, mind-boggling maps, human ingenuity and the great rhombicuboctahedron...
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Four Colors Suffice, Robin J. Wilson
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2003
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda),
- Estado del libro
- Bueno
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- 9,39 €
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- Título
- Four Colors Suffice
- Subtítulo
- How the Map Problem Was Solved
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Robin J. Wilson
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Publicado en
- 2003
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 262
- ISBN10
- 014100908X
- ISBN13
- 9780141009087
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ciencia, Cartografía, Microhistoria
- Descripción
- The four-colour problem was one of the most famous and controversial conundrums ever known, and stumped thousands of puzzlers for over a century. It sounded simple: what is the least number of colours needed to fill in any map, so that neighbouring countries are always coloured differently? However, it would take over a hundred years for amateur problem - solvers and mathematicians alike to answer the question first posed by Francis Guthrie in 1852. And, even when a solution was finally found using computers, debate raged over whether this technology could ever provide the proof that traditional pen - and - paper calculations could. This is the gripping story of the race to solve the riddle - a tale of dedicated puzzlers, mind-boggling maps, human ingenuity and the great rhombicuboctahedron...