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    Sir Alfred Bray Kempe FRS (6 July 1849 – 21 April 1922) was a mathematician best known for his work on linkages and the four colour theorem. Kempe was...
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    color proof by Alfred Kempe in 1879. Percy John Heawood found an error 11 years later, and proved the five color theorem based on Kempe's work. First of...
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  • Look up Kempe or kempe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kempe may refer to: Kempe baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England Kempe chain, part...
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    Fritsch graph. It was used by Rudolf and Gerda Fritsch to show that Alfred Kempe's attempted proof of the four color theorem was incorrect. The Fritsch...
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  • Kempe, KCB (5 January 1846 – 4 April 1928) was a British civil servant. John Kempe was the son of the Rev. John Edward Kempe and grandson of Alfred John...
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    for said unstable positions are not shown for the sake of clarity. Kempe, Alfred Bray (1877). How to Draw a Straight Line: A Lecture on Linkages. Macmillan...
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    Alfred John Kempe (c.1784 – 21 August 1846) was an English antiquary. Kempe was born in London, and baptised at the church of St Mary, Newington on 16...
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    given by Alfred Kempe in 1879, which was widely acclaimed; another was given by Peter Guthrie Tait in 1880. It was not until 1890 that Kempe's proof was...
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    the "two color theorem"; Soifer credits it to a famous 1879 paper of Alfred Kempe containing a false proof of the four color theorem. Bandelt, H.-J.; Chepoi...
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    chain of vertices on a graph with alternating colours. Kempe chains were first used by Alfred Kempe in his attempted proof of the four colour theorem. Even...
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  • Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) was an English Christian mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered...
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    a meeting of the London Mathematical Society in 1879. The same year, Alfred Kempe published a paper that claimed to establish the result, and for a decade...
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    original output. A further generalization by James Joseph Sylvester and Alfred Kempe extends this such that the bars can instead be pairs of plates with similar...
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  • gaps. The first complete proof was given by Hilbert in 1896. In 1879, Alfred Kempe published a purported proof of the four color theorem, whose validity...
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    James Cockle 1888–1890 John James Walker 1890–1892 Alfred George Greenhill 1892–1894 Alfred Kempe 1894–1896 Percy Alexander MacMahon 1896–1898 Edwin Elliott...
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  • counterexample to the validity of the alleged proof of the four color theorem by Alfred Kempe. From 1928 to 1956 he was a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles...
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    1898, although it had already been studied for a different purpose by Alfred Kempe in 1886. The next four known snarks were the Blanuša snarks (two with...
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    theory to invariant theory was followed up by William Spottiswoode and Alfred Kempe. In 1878, Clifford published a seminal work, building on Grassmann's...
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    and philosophy of mathematics were influenced by Charles Peirce and Alfred Kempe. Students who learned logic at Royce's feet include Clarence Irving Lewis...
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    Greg Walker, The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama (Oxford, 2012), p. 519: Alfred Kempe, Loseley Manuscripts (London, 1836), pp. 61–62: Albert Feuillerat, Documents...
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    graphs of maps (subdivisions of the plane into regions) were mentioned by Alfred Kempe in 1879, and extended to maps on non-planar surfaces by Lothar Heffter [de]...
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    nested antiparallelograms was used in a linkage defined by Alfred Kempe as part of Kempe's universality theorem, stating that any algebraic curve may...
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    Francis Fairlie Touring Company for who he appeared in East Lynne by Alfred Kempe, in Progress by C. R. Munro and The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley...
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  • Kőnig (Julius König) Alfred Kempe Felix Klein Johannes Knoblauch Leo Königsberger Tullio Levi-Civita Reinhold von Lilienthal [de] Alfred Loewy Gino Loria...
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  • National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE; 1901–04) which named it for Sir Alfred Bray Kempe, at that time Treasurer of the Royal Society. 78°20′00″S 162°38′00″E...
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    Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a British Victorian era designer and manufacturer of stained glass. His studios produced over 4...
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    Anna Eliza Bray (born Kempe, afterwards Stothard; 25 December 1790 – 21 January 1883) was an English historical novelist. She also wrote several non-fiction...
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  • was named by a Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst after a Stockholm businessman Seth Michael Kempe (1857– 1946), during the Swedish Greenland...
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  • In 1876 Alfred B. Kempe published his article On a General Method of describing Plane Curves of the nth degree by Linkwork, which showed that for an arbitrary...
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    1879, Alfred Kempe published a proof of the four color theorem, one of the big conjectures in graph theory. While the theorem is true, Kempe's proof is...
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