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Heawood conjecture

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Etymology

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Formulated in 1890 by Percy John Heawood.

Proper noun

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the Heawood conjecture

  1. (graph theory) A conjecture (proven in 1968) that gives a lower bound for the number of colors that are necessary for graph coloring on a surface of a given genus.
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See also

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