four color theorem (English, name)
expansion: the four color theorem
Senses:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, no more than four colors are required to color the regions so that no two adjacent regions have the same color (adjacent being defined as two regions sharing a boundary, not counting corners, in which three or more regions share a boundary).
Forms:
form: the four color theorem
tags: canonical