Four Colour Theorem A new proof of the four color theorem by Ashay Dharwadker that uses group theory and Steiner systems. http://www.geocities.com/dharwadker/
The Four Color Theorem A brief summary of a new proof of the four color theorem by Neil Robertson, Daniel P. Sanders, Paul Category Science Math Combinatorics Graph Theory J. Math., 2 (1879), 193200. N. Robertson, DP Sanders, PD Seymour and R. Thomas,The four colour theorem, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B. 70 (1997), 2-44. http://www.math.gatech.edu/~thomas/FC/fourcolor.html
Extractions: History. Why a new proof? Outline of the proof. Main features of our proof. ... References. History. The Four Color Problem dates back to 1852 when Francis Guthrie, while trying to color the map of counties of England noticed that four colors sufficed. He asked his brother Frederick if it was true that any map can be colored using four colors in such a way that adjacent regions (i.e. those sharing a common boundary segment, not just a point) receive different colors. Frederick Guthrie then communicated the conjecture to DeMorgan. The first printed reference is due to Cayley in 1878. A year later the first `proof' by Kempe appeared; its incorrectness was pointed out by Heawood 11 years later. Another failed proof is due to Tait in 1880; a gap in the argument was pointed out by Petersen in 1891. Both failed proofs did have some value, though. Kempe discovered what became known as Kempe chains, and Tait found an equivalent formulation of the Four Color Theorem in terms of 3-edge-coloring. The next major contribution came from Birkhoff whose work allowed Franklin in 1922 to prove that the four color conjecture is true for maps with at most 25 regions. It was also used by other mathematicians to make various forms of progress on the four color problem. We should specifically mention Heesch who developed the two main ingredients needed for the ultimate proof - reducibility and discharging. While the concept of reducibility was studied by other researchers as well, it appears that the idea of discharging, crucial for the unavoidability part of the proof, is due to Heesch, and that it was he who conjectured that a suitable development of this method would solve the Four Color Problem.
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Four Colour Theorem four colour theorem four colour theorem The four colour theorem states that any planar (flat 2d) map needs only 4 colours to be coloured in. There is only one rule, adjacent regions must be in different colours. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~perry/maths/fourcolour/fourcolour.htm
Extractions: Four Colour Theorem The four colour theorem states that any planar (flat 2d) map needs only 4 colours to be coloured in. There is only one rule, adjacent regions must be in different colours. Regions that are connected at a point are not adjacent. The above image shows a skeleton map that needs colouring, and two possible colourings. There are generally many alternatives using only 4 colours, and the Four Colour theorem asks 'Is there a map that we can create that requires 5 colours?'. The first colouring is created using an agressive technique - a colour is applied to a random region, and then, again randomly, to as many regions as possible. Once exhausted, another colour is used. The second counts the regions - 12 in this case, and then creates 3 regions of each colour. This raises an important point. We can colour the maps using 5 colours, but we only NEED four. And is it possible to create a scenario where 4 colours does not seem to be enough, but there will be an different pattern that does colour the map in four. A simple proof of this theorem has eluded mathematicians for centuries, but here is a proof that the four colour theorem is true, and that there is no planar map that needs 5 or more colours.
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The Four Colour Theorem The four colour theorem. basic errors. The four colour theorem returnedto being the Four Colour Conjecture in 1890. Percy John Heawood http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_four_colour_theorem.html
The Four Colour Theorem References References for The four colour theorem. Books DA Holton and S Purcell, The fourcolour theorema short history, Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz. 6 (1) (1979), 11-14. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/References/The_four_colour_t
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About "A New Proof Of The Four Colour Theorem" A New Proof of The four colour theorem An article presenting a proof of the four color theorem that uses group theory and Steiner systems, illustrated using a map of Madhya Pradesh and adjoining states in India. http://mathforum.com/library/view/16622.html
Extractions: Visit this site: http://www.geocities.com/dharwadker/ Author: Ashay Dharwadker Description: An article presenting a proof of the four color theorem that uses group theory and Steiner systems, illustrated using a map of Madhya Pradesh and adjoining states in India. Introduction; Map Colouring; Steiner Systems; Eilenberg Modules; Hall Matchings; Riemann Surfaces; Main Construction; References. Levels: Research Languages: English Resource Types: Articles Math Topics: Group Theory Graph Theory
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Extractions: Visit this site: http://www.geocities.com/dharwadker/ Author: Ashay Dharwadker Description: An article presenting a proof of the four color theorem that uses group theory and Steiner systems, illustrated using a map of Madhya Pradesh and adjoining states in India. Introduction; Map Colouring; Steiner Systems; Eilenberg Modules; Hall Matchings; Riemann Surfaces; Main Construction; References. Levels: Research Languages: English Resource Types: Articles Math Topics: Group Theory Graph Theory
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Extractions: The Free Online Dictionary of Computing ( http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/ dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk Previous: four-colour glossies Next: four colour theorem mathematics application The proof, due to Appel and Haken, attained notoriety by using a computer to check tens of thousands of cases and is thus not humanly checkable, even in principle. Some thought that this brought the philosophical status of the proof into doubt. There are now rumours of a simpler proof, not requiring the use of a computer. See also chromatic number
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Extractions: Next: The Trisection of an Up: Famous Problems in Mathematics Previous: Famous Problems in Mathematics Theorem 2 [Four Colour Theorem] Every planar map with regions of simple borders can be coloured with 4 colours in such a way that no two regions sharing a non-zero length border have the same colour. An equivalent combinatorial interpretation is Theorem 3 [Four Colour Theorem] Every loopless planar graph admits a vertex-colouring with at most four different colours. This theorem was proved with the aid of a computer in 1976. The proof shows that if aprox. 1,936 basic forms of maps can be coloured with four colours, then any given map can be coloured with four colours. A computer program coloured these basic forms. So far nobody has been able to prove it without using a computer. In principle it is possible to emulate the computer proof by hand computations. The known proofs work by way of contradiction. The basic thrust of the proof is to assume that there are counterexamples, thus there must be minimal counterexamples in the sense that any subset of the graphic is four colourable. Then it is shown that all such minimal counterexamples must contain a subgraph from a set basic configurations. But it turns out that any one of those basic counterexamples can be replaced by something smaller, while preserving the need for five colours, thus contradicting minimality.
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Extractions: The four colour theorem Theorem 1 Given a map drawn in the plane we can colour the countries with red, green, blue and orange in such a way that any two adjacent countries have different colours. Here countries are assumed to be connected; we disallow the United States, for example, as Alaska and Hawaii are separated from the main body of the country. Two countries are only considered to be adjacent if they have a common boundary of nonzero length, not if they just touch at a single point. The theorem is illustrated by the following colouring of the map of Africa: For a detailed history of this problem, see the St Andrews history of mathematics site. Briefly, Francis Guthrie conjectured in 1852 that the result was true, but was unable to prove it. Over the next 27 years a number of powerful mathematicians such as Cayley considered the question but were also unable to answer it. A proof was announced in 1879 by Alfred Kempe to great acclaim, but eleven years later Percy Heawood revealed a fatal error in his argument. Over the next 86 years steady progress was made, showing for example that every map with at most 95 countries can be coloured with four colours. In 1976, Appel and Haken gave a proof of the theorem, which required consideration of 1476 different special cases, with computer assistance. The four-colour theorem is thus unusual in at least two ways: one of very few major results for which an incorrect proof has remained undetected for a considerable time, and the first major result to be proved by computer. In 1996 Robertson, Sanders, Seymour and Thomas gave a
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