From: Peter Percival <not.him@nowhere.invalid>
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 théorème 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. 

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