Beyond the Four Colour Theorem
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In 1976 two American mathematicians ended a century and a quarter of speculation by proving that every map in the plane can be coloured with four colours. What’s happened to map-colouring since then? And what’s it all for, anyway?
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This event was on Wed, 19 Nov 1997
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