Four colors suffice : how the map problem was solved

Publication Data

• Title Four colors suffice : how the map problem was solved
• Author Robin J. Wilson
• Publisher Princeton University Press
• Publication date 2014
• Publication location Princeton, New Jersey
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

First published: London : Allen Lane, 2002, under title Four colours suffice.

Contents

Preface to the revised color edition
Preface to the original edition
The four-colour problem
The problem is posed
Euler's famous formula
Cayley revives the problem...
...and Kempe solves it
A chapter of accidents
A bombshell from Durham
Crossing the Atlantic
A new dawn breaks
Success!
Is it a proof?
Chronology of events
Glossary.

Topics

• Four-color problem
• Four-color problem :: History
• Mathematical recreations :: History
• Proof theory :: History

Four colors suffice : how the map problem was solved by Robin J. Wilson. ISBN 9780691158228. Published by Princeton University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.