From: Peter Percival Subject: Re: 4-color problem . . . Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 19:00:24 +0100 Newsgroups: sci.math Summary: [missing] "B Chen (formerly known as \"me\")" wrote: > > ah. I see now. > > Is there a book on this (4-color problem)? Seems like decent problem to > spend a bit of time with. > 1.N L Biggs, E K Lloyd and R J Wilson, Graph Theory 1736-1936 (Oxford, 1986). 2.N L Biggs, E K Lloyd and R J Wilson, C S Peirce and De Morgan on the four-colour conjecture, Historia Mathematica 4 (1977), 215-216. 3.G D Birkhoff, Collected mathematical papers Vol. III : The four color problem, miscellaneous papers (New York 1968). 4.L Arias C, A chronological account of the various theories developed for solving the four-color problem (Spanish), Rev. Integr. Temas Mat. 2 (1) (1983), 7-13. 5.D A Holton and S Purcell, The four colour theorem-a short history, Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz. 6 (1) (1979), 11-14. 6.P C Kainen, Is the four color theorem true?, Geombinatorics 3 (2) (1993), 41-56. 7.J Mayer, Le th�or�me des quatre couleurs : notice historique et apercu technique, in Proceedings of the Seminar on the History of Mathematics 3 (Paris, 1982), 43-62. 8.T L Saaty, The four-color problem : assaults and conquest (New York, 1977). 9.J Wilson, New light on the origin of the four-color conjecture, Historia Mathematica 3 (1976), 329-330. -- The From: address in the header is fictional I am peter dot percival at cwcom dot net