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Thirteen colorful variations on Guthrie

Author(s)
Thomas Saaty
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
United States

Publication date: Jan, 1972

Journal: The American Mathematical Monthly
Vol.: 79- Issue: 1- Pages: 2-43

Abstract: After careful analysis of information regarding the origins of the four-color conjecture, Kenneth O. May concludes that: It was not the culmination of a series of individual efforts that flashes across the mind of Francis Guthrie while coloring a map of England... his brother communicated the conjecture, but not the attempted proof to De Morgan in October 1852.

Keywords: Four color problem, Graph theory

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.1972.11992979