40-year math mystery and 4 generations of figuring

40-year math mystery and 4 generations of figuring Atlanta GA (SPX) May 30, 2016 - 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 a proof of that conjecture in Graph Theory. Their res ... more

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