The Wonders of Science: Mathematics

Created for Harvey Mudd College Orientation 2005. (6 of 7)

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• wonders
• science
• mathematics
• crash
• cargo

[oceanbluesky]

stupid waste of time

[MsShaun2009]

ur so high!

sweet dreams brada!

[RobertStephenLopez]

kill the narrators

[ragnor110]

LOL, look it up

[deterriforming]

hehthen it wouldn't be a plane :-)

But yes, as your point shows, the four color theorem doesn't really apply directly to maps in general, only planar maps (can be drawn on a plane) with contiguous regions (e.g. Michigan is technically not allowed)

[Melorama2000]

I guess that depends on whether or not the plane meets itself on the other end or not! If LA, AR, OK, and NM extended across the globe and met together at one point, then we would need 5 colors. Math is so much fun!!

[deterriforming]

But LA, AR, OK, NM are not all adjacent, so you can color two of them the same color.

Google the four color theorem for planar graphs.

[sirisnin]

Note:

You will need five different colors to color the U.S states all different color without two states bordering each other to have the same color.

Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico

All border Texas.