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    Kenneth Ira Appel (October 8, 1932 – April 19, 2013) was an American mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois...
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    authors of Rog-O-Matic. Andrew Appel is the son of mathematician Kenneth Appel, who proved the Four-Color Theorem in 1976. Appel graduated summa cum laude...
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    proven by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. This came after many false proofs and mistaken counterexamples in the preceding decades. The Appel–Haken proof...
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    color theorem, first stated in 1852, but not proved until 1976 (by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken, using substantial computer assistance). In logic...
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  • validity. The term was coined by Thomas Tymoczko in 1979 in criticism of Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken's computer-assisted proof of the four color theorem...
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  • Appel (born 1958), Dutch documentary filmmaker Karel Appel (1921–2006), Dutch painter Kenneth Appel (1932–2013), American mathematician Kevin Appel (born...
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    problem using computers. A computer-aided proof produced in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken makes fundamental use of the notion of "discharging"...
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    ultimately proven in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. It was the first major theorem to be proved using a computer. Appel and Haken's approach started...
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    lecturer at the University of New Hampshire, where he was hired by Kenneth Appel in 1999. Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years...
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    be a fundamental ingredient of the eventual computer-aided proof by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. Between 1967 and 1971, Heesch made several visits...
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    historical conjectures were finally proven. In 1976, Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel proved the four color theorem, controversial at the time for the use...
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     ed.). Reading, Mass. [u.a.]: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-55406-9. Kenneth Appel; Wolfgang Haken (26 July 1976). "Every Planar Map is Four-Colorable"...
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    Zariski. The journal published the proof of the four color theorem by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken, which featured a then-unusual[citation needed] tabulation...
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    professor in 1965, retiring in 1998. In 1976, together with colleague Kenneth Appel at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Haken solved the...
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    a prestigious mental hospital, under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Kenneth Appel. One month later, he was given permission to leave the institute to...
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    case of the sphere is the four-color conjecture, which was settled by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken in 1976. Béla Bollobás, Graph Theory: An Introductory...
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  • Mumford conjecture geometric invariant theory Haboush's theorem 1976 Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken Four color theorem graph colouring Traditionally...
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    to four, until the four color theorem was finally proved in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. The proof went back to the ideas of Heawood and...
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  • Mandelbrot publishes Les objets fractals, forme, hasard et dimension. 1976 – Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken use a computer to prove the Four color theorem. 1981 –...
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    Jewish Americans. Abraham Adrian Albert (1905-1972), abstract algebra Kenneth Appel (1932-2013), four-color problem [unreliable source?] Lipman Bers (1914-1993)...
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    Peter H. Appel (born 1964) was the administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). From 2009 to 2011 Appel was the Obama...
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    success of valid modern proofs, such as the first successful one by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. Furthermore, the method is used in the proof of...
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  • from) the standard axioms of set theory. In 1976, Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel used a computer to prove the four color theorem. Andrew Wiles, building...
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    / Tom Stow (California) 1927 Wilmer Allison (Texas) John Van Ryn / Kenneth Appel (Princeton) 1928 Julius Seligson (Lehigh) Ralph McElvenny / Alan Herrington...
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  • Stratford California 1926 Edward Chandler, Tom Stow California 1927 Kenneth Appel, John Van Ryn Princeton 1928 Alan Herrington, Ralph McElvenny Stanford...
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  • Richard M. Karp for classifying many important NP-complete problems. Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken for the four color theorem. Paul Seymour for generalizing...
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  • notable people who were born or have lived in Dover, New Hampshire. Kenneth Appel (1932–2013), mathematician; solved the four-color theorem Jeremy Belknap...
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  • extra-large type are torsion-free and have solvable conjugacy problem (Kenneth Appel and Paul Schupp). Artin–Tits groups of extra-large type are biautomatic...
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  • scientist and translator Aldo Andreotti (1924–1980), mathematician Kenneth Appel (1932–2013), proved four-color theorem Zvi Arad (1942–2018), mathematician...
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    Two mathematicians at the University of Illinois, Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel, announced in Champaign, Illinois that they had used a computer analysis...
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