Re: A Mathematical Comparison: The Two and Four Color Theorems

From: Gordon Simons (gsimons@email.unc.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 04:26:01 EST

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    There is a fun two-color theorem which can be proven without too much
    difficulty by a bright high school student:

    The resulting regions produced by the crossings of a finite set of
    straight lines in a two-dimensional Euclidean space are always
    two-colorable.



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