Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

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Recorded31 Jan 2019

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By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality. The post Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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