[aging] Re: road colouring theorem
Subject: Re: road colouring theorem Hooray for those of us in our 60s! Like we suddenly turn brain dead? SW On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:51 PM, M Pamela Bumsted wrote: “March 28, 2008 Ex-security guard Avraham Trahtman solves maths riddle Graphic of the road colouring theorem Sheera Frenkel Avraham Trahtman was not looking for fame when he solved the “road colouring problem”, a conundrum that has befuddled mathematicians for nearly four decades. Thanks to his age - 63 - as well as his past employment as a security guard and labourer, however, he has captured the imagination of many in his field and is something of a mathematical luminary. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3635705.ece
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