Four Colours Suffice - Robin J. Wilson

Four Colours Suffice

How the Map Problem Was Solved

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2003 | New edition
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-100908-7 (ISBN)
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A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the solution to one of the world's most puzzling mathematical problems. This book introduces the mathematicians behind the mathematics, among them a bishop, a botanist, an obsessive golfer and a bridegroom who spend his honeymoon colouring maps.
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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.8.2003
Zusatzinfo b&w illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 268 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-14-100908-X / 014100908X
ISBN-13 978-0-14-100908-7 / 9780141009087
Zustand Neuware
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