Skip to Main Content

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

What is MCQ? The Mathematical Citation Quotient (MCQ) measures journal impact by looking at citations over a five-year period. Subscribers to MathSciNet may click through for more detailed information.

 

Every planar map is four colorable
HTML articles powered by AMS MathViewer

by K. Appel and W. Haken PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1976), 711-712
References
    1.. F. Allaire and E. R. Swart, A systematic approach to the determination of reducible configurations, J. Combinatorial Theory Ser. B (to appear).
  • K. Appel and W. Haken, The existence of unavoidable sets of geographically good configurations, Illinois J. Math. 20 (1976), no. 2, 218–297. MR 392641, DOI 10.1215/ijm/1256049898
  • Heinrich Heesch, Untersuchungen zum Vierfarbenproblem, B. I. Hochschulskripten, vol. 810/810, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim-Vienna-Zürich, 1969 (German). MR 0248048
  • Hassler Whitney and W. T. Tutte, Kempe chains and the four colour problem, Utilitas Math. 2 (1972), 241–281. MR 309782
Similar Articles
  • Retrieve articles in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society with MSC (1970): 05C15
  • Retrieve articles in all journals with MSC (1970): 05C15
Additional Information
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1976), 711-712
  • MSC (1970): Primary 05C15
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1976-14122-5
  • MathSciNet review: 0424602