Graph colouring remains a central topic in graph theory, providing the mathematical framework for assigning colours to the elements of a graph under specific constraints. In particular, the colouring ...
Two computer scientists found — in the unlikeliest of places — just the idea they needed to make a big leap in graph theory. This past October, as Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg were thumbing through a ...
In 1950 Edward Nelson, then a student at the University of Chicago, asked the kind of deceptively simple question that can give mathematicians fits for decades. Imagine, he said, a graph — a ...