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Here I am proposing a translation and discussion of the De Iride, one of the short scientific treatise written by Robert Grosseteste. In the first part of his Latin text we find reflection and refraction of light, described in a geometrical…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

In his treatise on light, written in about 1225, Robert Grosseteste describes a cosmological model in which the Universe is created in a big-bang like explosion and subsequent condensation. He postulates that the fundamental coupling of…

Robert Grosseteste was one of the most prominent thinkers of the Thirteenth Century. Philosopher and scientist, he proposed a metaphysics based on the propagation of light. In this framework, he gave a cosmology too. Here we will discuss…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

In De Impressionibus Elementorum, a treatise written by Grosseteste shortly after 1220, we can find a discussion of some phenomena involving the four classical elements (air, water, fire and earth), in the framework of an Aristotelian…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

In his scientific treatise entitled De Lineis, Angulis et Figuris, seu Fractionibus et Reflexionibus Radiorum, Robert Grosseteste is discussing some qualitative geometric rules about reflection and refraction. However, he is also discussing…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

We make an attempt at proving the Four Colour Theorem in six pages.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Carl Feghali

On November 12, 1802, Thomas Young lays down in front of the Royal Society of London his Theory of Light and Colours. In this text, he defends a vibratory model or light, in which the peculiar attention he gives to the consequence of the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-11-14 Olivier Morizot

The four-color theorem states that no more than four colors are required to color all nodes in planar graphs such that no two adjacent nodes are of the same color. The theorem was first propounded by Francis Guthrie in 1852. Since then,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Wei-Chang Yeh

A formal proof has not been found for the four color theorem since 1852 when Francis Guthrie first conjectured the four color theorem. Why? A bad idea, we think, directed people to a rough road. Using a similar method to that for the formal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-05-27 Limin Xiang

In his interviews with Eckermann in the 1820s, Goethe referred to his Theory of Colors as his greatest and ultimate achievement. Its reception following publication in 1810 and subsequent reviews throughout the history of physical science…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex Kentsis

This is a treatise on finite point configurations spanning a fixed volume to be found in a single color-class of an arbitrary finite (measurable) coloring of the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, or in a single large measurable subset…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Vjekoslav Kovač

We present preliminary results in quantitative analyses of color usage in selected authors' works from LitBank. Using Glasgow Norms, human ratings on 5000+ words, we measure attributes of nouns dependent on color terms. Early results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Siyan Li

The famous four color theorem states that for all planar graphs, every vertex can be assigned one of 4 colors such that no two adjacent vertices receive the same color. Since Francis Guthrie first conjectured it in 1852, it is until 1976…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Jin Xu

A definition is given of seriate sets as being sets constituted out of structured collections of objects which are recursively internally self- similar. Fundamental (geometrical) objects of Dimension N are conceived to be constituted out of…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Cris Mallagh

A short history of prisms from Lucius Anneus Seneca to George Ravenscroft.

Popular Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

The four-color conjecture has puzzled mathematicians for over 170 years and has yet to be proven by purely mathematical methods. This series of articles provides a purely mathematical proof of the four-color conjecture, consisting of two…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Jin Xu

For the four-color theorem that has been developed over one and half centuries, all people believe it right but without complete proof convincing all1-3. Former proofs are to find the basic four-colorable patterns on a planar graph to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-04-30 X. -J. Wang , T. -Q. Wang

A $t$-tone coloring of a graph $G$ assigns to each vertex a set of $t$ colors such that any pair of vertices $u, v$ with distance $d$ can share at most $d-1$ colors. In this note, we prove several new results on $t$-tone coloring. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Patrick Bennett , Jade Nichols

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General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yanyou Qiao

Hindman proved in 1979 that no matter how natural numbers are colored in r colors, for a fixed positive integer r, there is an infinite subset X of numbers and a color t such that for any finite non-empty subset X' of X, the color of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Maria Axenovich , David S. Gunderson , Hanno Lefmann
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