Advertisement
Published in:
2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
E2. Chromatic Number of the Plane (My Favorite Open Problem)
Author : Alexander Soifer
Published in: The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad and Further Explorations
Publisher: Springer US
Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.
Select sections of text to find matching patents with Artificial Intelligence. powered by
Select sections of text to find additional relevant content using AI-assisted search. powered by
This
is
my favorite open problem in all of mathematics, so much so that by the time this new Springer edition is coming out, I have written
The Mathematical Coloring Book
[S11] about this and related problems. In the first 1994 edition of this book I remarked that
The Coloring Book
will appear in 1995, and the following essay is essentially an excerpt from its Chapter II. In fact,
The Mathematical Coloring Book
came out froom Springer much later, on November 4, 2008, the day we elected President Barack Obama. I gave it 18 years and all I had in terms of my knowledge of the arts, sciences, poetry, philosophy, aesthetics, and in terms of all my energy and passion. I hope you will read and enjoy that 640-page magnum opus. I will leave this essay more or less as it originally appeared in 1994, with a new mild editing – it will now serve as an introduction to
The Coloring Book
.