40-year math mystery and 4 generations of figuring
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 19:20
in Mathematics & Economics
This may sound like a familiar kind of riddle: How many brilliant mathematicians does it take to come up with and prove the Kelmans-Seymour Conjecture? But the answer is no joke, because arriving at it took mental toil that spanned four decades until this year, when mathematicians at the Georgia Institute of Technology finally announced […]