The New Mathematical Coloring Book (TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition. A large part of the new edition Ask what your computer can do for you, presents the recent breakthrough by Aubrey de Grey and works by Marijn Heule, Jaan Parts, Geoffrey Exoo, and Dan Ismailescu. TNMCB introduces new open problems and conjectures that will pave the way to the future keeping the book in the center of the field. TNMCB presents mathematics of coloring as an evolution of ideas, with biographies of their creators and historical setting of the world around them, and the world around us. A new thing in the world at the time, TMCB I is now joined by a colossal sibling containing more than twice as much of what only Alexander Soifer can deliver: an interweaving of mathematics with history and biography, well-seasoned with controversy and opinion. Peter D. Johnson, Jr.Auburn University Like TMCB I, TMCB II is a unique combination of Mathematics, History, and Biography written by a skilled journalist who has been intimately involved with the story for the last half-century. The nature of the subject makes much of the material accessible to students, but also of interest to working Mathematicians. In addition to learning some wonderful Mathematics, students will learn to appreciate the influences of Paul Erds, Ron Graham, and others.Geoffrey ExooIndiana State University The beautiful and unique Mathematical coloring book of Alexander Soifer is another case of good mathematics, containing a lot of similar examples (it is not by chance that Szemerédis Theorem story is included as well) and presenting mathematics as both a science and an artPeter MihókMathematical Reviews, MathSciNet A postman came to the door with a copy of the masterpiece of the century. I thank you and the mathematics community should thank you for years to come. You have set a standard for writing about mathematics and mathematicians that will be hard to match. Harold W. KuhnPrinceton University I have never encountered a book of this kind. The best description of it I can give is that it is a mystery novel I found it hard to stop reading before I finished (in two days) the whole text. Soifer engages the reader's attention not only mathematically, but emotionally and esthetically. May you enjoy the book as much as I did! Branko GrünbaumUniversity of Washington I am in absolute awe of your 2008 book. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey
LEV Foundation
Arvustused
This very nicely presented book studies problems involving colored objects and the Ramsey theory. ... New open problems and conjectures are included and this will lead to further work on the theme of this book. This book is strongly recommended to all those who wish to learn more about mathematics, mathematicians, the process of investigation and the psychology of mathematical invention. (S. Arumugam, zbMATH 1551.05001, 2025)
Usually I save my opinion of the book for the end. For this book, I cant wait: This is a Fantastic Book! Go buy it Now! ... This book has plenty of both. If you are interested in math, then this book will . If you are interested in history of math, then this book will . Any researcher in either mathematics or the history of mathematics will find many interesting things they did not know. (William Gasarch, SIGACT News, Vol. 55 (4), 2024)
Epigraph: To Paint a Bird.- Foreword for the New Mathematical Coloring
Book by Peter D. Johnson, Jr.- Foreword for the New Mathematical Coloring
Book by Geoffrey Exoo.- Foreword for the New Mathematical Coloring Book by
Branko Grunbaum. Foreword for The Mathematical Coloring Book by Peter D.
Johnson, Jr., Foreword for The Mathematical Coloring Book by Cecil Rousseau.-
Acknowledgements.- Greetings to the Reader 2023.- Greetings to the Reader
2009.- I. Merry-Go-Round.-1. A Story of Colored Polygons and Arithmetic
Progressions.- II. Colored Plane.-
2. Chromatic Number of the Plane: The
Problem.-
3. Chromatic Number of the Plane: An Historical Essay.-
4.
Polychromatic Number of the Plane and Results Near the Lower Bound.-
5. De
BruijnErds Reduction to Finite Sets and Results Near the Lower Bound.-
6.
Polychromatic Number of the Plane and Results Near the Upper Bound.-
7.
Continuum of 6-Colorings of the Plane.-
8. Chromatic Number of the Plane in
Special Circumstances.-
9. MeasurableChromatic Number of the Plane.-
10.
Coloring in Space.-
11. Rational Coloring.- III. Coloring Graphs.-
12.
Chromatic Number of a Graph.-
13. Dimension of a Graph.-
14. Embedding
4-Chromatic Graphs in the Plane.-
15. Embedding World Series.-
16.
ExooIsmailescu: The Final Word on Problem 15.4.-
17. Edge Chromatic Number
of a Graph.-
18. The Carsten Thomassen 7-Color Theorem.- IV.Coloring Maps.-
19. How the Four-Color Conjecture Was Born.-
20. Victorian Comedy of Errors
and Colorful Progress.-
21. KempeHeawoods Five-Color Theorem and Taits
Equivalence.-
22. The Four-Color Theorem.-
23. The Great Debate.-
24. How
Does One Color Infinite Maps? A Bagatelle.-
25. Chromatic Number of the Plane
Meets Map Coloring: The TownsendWoodall 5-Color Theorem.- V. Colored
Graphs.-
26. Paul Erds.-
27. The De BruijnErds Theorem and Its History.-
28. Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn.-
29. Edge Colored Graphs: Ramsey and Folkman
Numbers.- VI. The Ramsey Principles.-
30. From Pigeonhole Principle to Ramsey
Principle.-
31. The Happy End Problem.-
32. The Man behind the Theory: Frank
Plumpton Ramsey.- VII. Colored Integers: Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey and Its
AfterMath.-
33. Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey: Hilberts Theorem.-
34. Ramsey
Theory Before Ramsey: Schurs Coloring Solution of a Colored Problem and Its
Generalizations.-
35. Ramsey Theory Before Ramsey: Van der Waerden Tells the
Story of Creation.-
36. Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove? Two Lives
Between Two Wars: Issai Schur and Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet.-
38.
Monochromatic Arithmetic Progressions or Life After Van der Waerden.-
39. In
Search of Van der Waerden: The Early Years.-
40. In Search of Van der
Waerden: The Nazi Leipzig, 19331945.-
41. In Search of Van der Waerden:
Amsterdam, Year 1945.-
42. In Search of Van der Waerden: The Unsettling
Years, 19461951.-
43. How the Monochromatic AP Theorem Became Classic:
Khinchin and Lukomskaya.- VIII. Colored Polygons: Euclidean Ramsey Theory.-
44. Monochromatic Polygons in a 2-Colored Plane.-
45. 3-Colored Plane,
2-Colored Space, and Ramsey Sets.-
46. The Gallai Theorem.- IX. Colored
Integers in Service of the Chromatic Number of the Plane: How ODonnell
Unified Ramsey Theory and No One Noticed.-
47. O'Donnell Earns His
Doctorate.-
48. Application of BaudetSchurVan der Waerden.-
48. Application
of BergelsonLeibmans and MordellFaltings Theorems.-
50. Solution of an
Erds Problem: The ODonnell Theorem.- X. Ask What Your Computer Can Do for
You.-
51. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey's Breakthrough.-
52. De Grey's Construction.-
53. Marienus Johannes Hendrikus 'Marijn' Heule.-
54. Can We Reach Chromatic 5
Without Mosers Spindles?.-
55. Triangle-Free 5-Chromatic Unit Distance
Graphs.-
56. Jaan Parts' Current World Record.- XI. What About Chromatic 6?.-
57. A Stroke of Brilliance: Matthew Huddleston's Proof.-
58. Geoffrey Exoo
and Dan Ismailescu or 2 Men from 2 Forbidden Distances.-
59. Jaan Parts on
Two-Distance 6-Coloring.-
60. Forbidden Odds, Binaries, and Factorials.-
61.
7-and 8-Chromatic Two-Distance Graphs.- XII. Predicting the Future.-
62. What
If We Had No Choice?.-
63. AfterMath and the ShelahSoifer Class of Graphs.-
64. A Glimpse into the Future: Chromatic Number of the Plane, Theorems and
Conjectures.- XIII. Imagining the Real, Realizing the Imaginary.-
65. What Do
the Founding Set Theorists Think About the Foundations?.-
66. So, What Does
It All Mean?.-
67. Imagining the Real or Realizing the Imaginary: Platonism
versus Imaginism.- XIV. Farewell to the Reader.-
68. Two Celebrated
Problems.- Bibliography.- Name Index.- Subject Index.- Index of Notations.
Alexander Soifer is a Russian born and educated American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, an author of some 400 articles on mathematics, history of mathematics, mathematics education, film reviews, etc. and has published 9 books with Springer. From 20122018, he served as President of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions, which in 2006 awarded him The Paul Erds Award. In 1991 Soifer founded a research quarterly titled Geombinatorics and with a premier editorial board has published 130 issues over 33 years. Soifer founded The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad, and served on both USSR and USA Mathematical Olympiads committees. Soifers Erds number is 1.
