Heawood conjecture

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Etymology

Formulated in 1890 by Percy John Heawood.

Proper noun

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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