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4 Problems With Color-Matching Paint That Not Enough People Talk About — "Complex Pigments Are Nearly Impossible To Replicate"

We all know the struggle of finding the perfect paint color. Perhaps you've got something specific in mind, or you're still searching for the right shade — either way, we all know the impact color can ...
Wired

A Computer-Assisted Proof Solves the ‘Packing Coloring’ Problem

As an undergraduate at the University of Chile, Bernardo Subercaseaux took a dim view of using computers to do math. It seemed antithetical to real intellectual discovery. “There’s some instinct or ...
JSTOR Daily

Higher-Dimensional Analogues of the Map Coloring Problem

https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.08.733 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.08.733 Abstract After a brief discussion of the ...
Quanta Magazine

The Colorful Problem That Has Long Frustrated Mathematicians

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 ...