The Great Debate

Alexander Soifer
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Alexander Soifer: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

Chapter Chapter 23 in The New Mathematical Coloring Book, 2024, pp 239-250 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Forty+ years later, the controversy surrounding the Appel and Haken proof is amazingly alive and well. Even when the extraordinary in many respects Appel and Haken’s proof was just announced, the President of the Mathematical Association of America Lynn Arthur Steen was very careful [Ste]: he did not write that the conjecture had been proved but instead used the word “verified” in describing the most important mathematical event of that year.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3597-1_23

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