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The Mathematical Coloring Book

Alexander Soifer

The Mathematical

Coloring Book

Mathematics of Coloring

and the Colorful Life of its Creators

Forewords by Branko Gr unbaum, Peter D. Johnson Jr.,

and Cecil Rousseau

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Alexander Soifer

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs

CO 80918, USA

asoifer@uccs.edu

ISBN: 978-0-387-74640-1

e-ISBN: 978-0-387-74642-5

DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-74642-5

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008936132

Mathematics Subject Classiﬁcation (2000): 01Axx 03-XX 05-XX

Alexander Soifer 2009

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Cover illustration : The photographs on the front cover depict, from the upper left clockwise, Paul Erd os,

Frank P. Ramsey, Bartel L. van der Waerden, and Issai Schur.

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