Monthly Archives: September 2018

6-colourings of subsets of the plane

There has been further recent activity on the Chromatic Number of the Plane problem, with an eleventh research thread being spawned. Philip Gibbs has been able to 6-colour a large disc (with diameter slightly greater than 4), and Aubrey de … Continue reading

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Atiyah’s problem

At the Heidelberg Laureate Forum three years ago, I took lots of selfies with Fields medallists, Abel prizewinners and Turing laureates. This included having a dinner in a castle with Leonard Adleman, pioneer of asymmetric cryptography: …and Endre Szemeredi of … Continue reading

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