The four-colour theorem (Q1369648)
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The four-colour theorem (English)
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16 March 1998
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The four-colour theorem, that every loopless planar graph has a vertex colouring with at most four colours, was proved by Appel and Haken in 1976, using a computer. Here another proof is given, still using a computer, but simpler than the original.
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four colour theorem
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planar graph
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vertex colouring
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