Book review of: Alexander Soifer, The mathematical coloring book. Mathematics of coloring and the colorful life of its creators

DOI10.1365/S13291-014-0101-YMaRDI QIDQ485101zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Günter M. Ziegler

Publication date 9 January 2015

Published in Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1365/s13291-014-0101-y

zbMATH Keywords

B.L. van der WaerdencoloringRamsey theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

External book reviews (00A17) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to combinatorics (05-01) History of combinatorics (05-03) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Generalized Ramsey theory (05C55)

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