Four Colours Suffice by Robin J Wilson
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141009087 |
| ISBN 10 | 014100908X |
| Title | Four Colours Suffice |
| Author | Robin J Wilson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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