Kenneth Appel
Mathematician, Academic
1932 – 2013
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Who was Kenneth Appel?
Kenneth Ira Appel was an American mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, solved one of the most famous problems in mathematics, the four-color theorem. They proved that any two-dimensional map, with certain limitations, can be filled in with four colors without any adjacent "countries" sharing the same color.
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- Born
- Oct 8, 1932
Brooklyn - Also known as
- 凱尼斯·阿佩爾
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Michigan
- Queens College, City University of New York
- Lived in
- New Hampshire
- Died
- Apr 19, 2013
Dover
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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