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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Kenneth Appel

Kenneth Ira Appel was an American mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, solved one of the most famous problems in mathematics, the four-color theorem. They proved that any two-dimensional map, with certain limitations, can be filled in with four colors without any adjacent "countries" sharing the same color.

October 8, 1932 - April 19, 2013
Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs. — © Kenneth Appel
Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.
The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.
Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.
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