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heawood conjecture

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English

Syllables
hea-wood -con-jec-ture
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A conjecture (proven in 1968) that gives a lower bound for the number of colors that are necessary for graph coloring on a surface of a given genus.

Etymology

Formulated in 1890 by Percy John Heawood.

Inflected Forms

the Heawood conjecture (canonical)

Phrases

Heawood number Ringel-Youngs theorem

Frequently Paired Words

Heawood number Ringel-Youngs theorem

Questions

What does heawood conjecture mean?
A conjecture (proven in 1968) that gives a lower bound for the number of colors that are necessary for graph coloring on a surface of a given genus.
Where does heawood conjecture come from?
Formulated in 1890 by Percy John Heawood.

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