The New Mathematical Coloring Book [[electronic resource] ] : Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators / / by Alexander Soifer |
Autore | Soifer Alexander |
Edizione | [2nd ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (838 pages) |
Disciplina | 511.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GrünbaumBranko
JohnsonPeter RousseauCecil |
Soggetto topico |
Discrete mathematics
Mathematics History Mathematical logic Discrete Mathematics History of Mathematical Sciences Mathematical Logic and Foundations |
ISBN | 1-0716-3597-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Epigraph: To Paint a Bird -- Foreword for the New Mathematical Coloring Book by Peter D. Johnson, Jr -- Foreword for the New Mathematical Coloring Book by Geoffrey Exoo -- Foreword for the New Mathematical Coloring Book by Branko Grunbaum. Foreword for The Mathematical Coloring Book by Peter D. Johnson, Jr., Foreword for The Mathematical Coloring Book by Cecil Rousseau -- Acknowledgements -- Greetings to the Reader 2023 -- Greetings to the Reader 2009 -- I. Merry-Go-Round.-1. A Story of Colored Polygons and Arithmetic Progressions -- II. Colored Plane -- 2. Chromatic Number of the Plane: The Problem -- 3. Chromatic Number of the Plane: An Historical Essay -- 4. Polychromatic Number of the Plane and Results Near the Lower Bound -- 5. De Bruijn–Erdős Reduction to Finite Sets and Results Near the Lower Bound -- 6. Polychromatic Number of the Plane and Results Near the Upper Bound -- 7. Continuum of 6-Colorings of the Plane -- 8. Chromatic Number of the Plane in Special Circumstances -- 9. MeasurableChromatic Number of the Plane -- 10. Coloring in Space -- 11. Rational Coloring -- III. Coloring Graphs -- 12. Chromatic Number of a Graph -- 13. Dimension of a Graph -- 14. Embedding 4-Chromatic Graphs in the Plane -- 15. Embedding World Series -- 16. Exoo–Ismailescu: The Final Word on Problem 15.4 -- 17. Edge Chromatic Number of a Graph -- 18. The Carsten Thomassen 7-Color Theorem -- IV.Coloring Maps -- 19. How the Four-Color Conjecture Was Born -- 20. Victorian Comedy of Errors and Colorful Progress -- 21. Kempe–Heawood’s Five-Color Theorem and Tait’s Equivalence -- 22. The Four-Color Theorem -- 23. The Great Debate -- 24. How Does One Color Infinite Maps? A Bagatelle -- 25. Chromatic Number of the Plane Meets Map Coloring: The Townsend–Woodall 5-Color Theorem -- V. Colored Graphs -- 26. Paul Erdős -- 27. The De Bruijn–Erdős Theorem and Its History -- 28. Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn -- 29. Edge Colored Graphs: Ramsey and Folkman Numbers -- VI. The Ramsey Principles -- 30. From Pigeonhole Principle to Ramsey Principle -- 31. The Happy End Problem -- 32. The Man behind the Theory: Frank Plumpton Ramsey -- VII. Colored Integers: Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey and Its AfterMath -- 33. Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey: Hilbert’s Theorem -- 34. Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey: Schur’s Coloring Solution of a Colored Problem and Its Generalizations -- 35. Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey: Van der Waerden Tells the Story of Creation -- 36. Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove? Two Lives Between Two Wars: Issai Schur and Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet -- 38. Monochromatic Arithmetic Progressions or Life After Van der Waerden -- 39. In Search of Van der Waerden: The Early Years -- 40. In Search of Van der Waerden: The Nazi Leipzig, 1933–1945 -- 41. In Search of Van der Waerden: Amsterdam, Year 1945 -- 42. In Search of Van der Waerden: The Unsettling Years, 1946–1951 -- 43. How the Monochromatic AP Theorem Became Classic: Khinchin and Lukomskaya -- VIII. Colored Polygons: Euclidean Ramsey Theory -- 44. Monochromatic Polygons in a 2-Colored Plane -- 45. 3-Colored Plane, 2-Colored Space, and Ramsey Sets -- 46. The Gallai Theorem -- IX. Colored Integers in Service of the Chromatic Number of the Plane: How O’Donnell Unified Ramsey Theory and No One Noticed -- 47. O'Donnell Earns His Doctorate -- 48. Application of Baudet–Schur–Van der Waerden -- 48. Application of Bergelson–Leibman’s and Mordell–Faltings’ Theorems -- 50. Solution of an Erdős Problem: The O’Donnell Theorem -- X. Ask What Your Computer Can Do for You -- 51. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey's Breakthrough -- 52. De Grey's Construction -- 53. Marienus Johannes Hendrikus 'Marijn' Heule -- 54. Can We Reach Chromatic 5 Without Mosers Spindles? -- 55. Triangle-Free 5-Chromatic Unit Distance Graphs -- 56. Jaan Parts' Current World Record -- XI. What About Chromatic 6? -- 57. A Stroke of Brilliance: Matthew Huddleston's Proof -- 58. Geoffrey Exoo and Dan Ismailescu or 2 Men from 2 Forbidden Distances -- 59. Jaan Parts on Two-Distance 6-Coloring -- 60. Forbidden Odds, Binaries, and Factorials -- 61. 7-and 8-Chromatic Two-Distance Graphs -- XII. Predicting the Future -- 62. What If We Had No Choice? -- 63. AfterMath and the Shelah–Soifer Class of Graphs -- 64. A Glimpse into the Future: Chromatic Number of the Plane, Theorems and Conjectures -- XIII. Imagining the Real, Realizing the Imaginary -- 65. What Do the Founding Set Theorists Think About the Foundations? -- 66. So, What Does It All Mean? -- 67. Imagining the Real or Realizing the Imaginary: Platonism versus Imaginism -- XIV. Farewell to the Reader -- 68. Two Celebrated Problems -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Index of Notations. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910842491503321 |
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Winning solutions / Edward Lozansky, Cecil Rousseau |
Autore | Lozansky, Edward |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York [etc.] : Springer, c1996 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 510.76 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Rousseau, Cecil |
Collana | Problem Books in Mathematics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Matematica - Problemi
Teoria elementare dei numeri Problemi combinatorici classici |
ISBN | 0-387-94743-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990001350040403321 |
Lozansky, Edward
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New York [etc.] : Springer, c1996 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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