The theory of coloring deals with the problem of labeling parts of a graph to comply with certain rules and avoid specific conflicts. For example, imagine you wanted to color each dot below so that ...

Four years ago, the mathematician Maria Chudnovsky faced an all-too-common predicament: how to seat 120 wedding guests, some of whom did not get along, at a dozen or so conflict-free tables. Luckily, ...

A theorem for coloring a large class of “perfect” mathematical networks could ease the way for a long-sought general coloring proof. Four years ago, the mathematician Maria Chudnovsky faced an all-too ...

Graph colouring, the assignment of colours to the vertices of a graph so that no two adjacent vertices share the same colour, represents a canonical NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problem with ...

Have you ever tried to do the brainteaser below, where you have to connect the dots to make the outline of a house in one continuous stroke without going back over your lines? Or perhaps you've ...