The Four Colour Theorem

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• Professor Imre Leader
• Tuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00
• Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

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Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org

How many colours do we need for a map? In other words, if we are colouring in the countries on a map, and we want neighbouring countries to have different colours, how many colours are enough? Map-makers had suspected for a long time that any map could be coloured using just four colours, but was this right?

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