One of the great episodes in the history of mathematics began on October 23, 1852. In a letter to Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Augustus De Morgan wrote, “A student of mine asked me today to give him a ...

The graph colouring problem, a classic NP-hard challenge, is central to many practical applications such as scheduling, resource allocation and network management. Recent advances have seen the ...

Graph reconfiguration and colouring problems investigate the transition between feasible solutions of a graph colouring instance. The central challenge is to determine a series of elementary vertex ...

In 1852, botanist Francis Guthrie noticed something peculiar as he was coloring a map of counties in England. Despite the counties’ meandering shapes and varied configurations, four colors were all he ...

Have you ever tried to do the brainteaser below, where you have to connect the dots to make the outline of a house in one continuous stroke without going back over your lines? Or perhaps you've ...

A theorem for coloring a large class of “perfect” mathematical networks could ease the way for a long-sought general coloring proof. Four years ago, the mathematician Maria Chudnovsky faced an all-too ...