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A Breakthrough in Graph Theory - Numberphile

2019-12-23

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A counterexample to Hedetniemi's conjecture - featuring Erica Klarreich.

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Read Erica Klarreich's Quanta article on this subject: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-disproves-hedetniemis-graph-theory-conjecture-20190617/

And visit her website: http://www.ericaklarreich.com/

Yaroslav Shitov's breakthrough paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02167

Thanks to Stephen Hedetniemi for providing us with photos and pages from his original dissertation.

Some more graph theory on Numberphile...

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Perfect Graphs: /youtube/video/C4Zr4cOVm9g

Friends and Strangers: /youtube/video/xdiL-ADRTxQ

River Crossings: /youtube/video/ZCVAGb1ee8A

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