Abstract
Ed Nelson is a senior faculty member of the great Princeton Mathematics Department. He is well known for his work in a number of areas, including logic and probability theory. Nelson, in 1950, created a beautiful problem about coloring the plane. Not coloring a graph, coloring the whole Euclidean plane.
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Lipton, R.J. (2010). What Happens When P=NP Is Resolved?. In: The P=NP Question and Gödel’s Lost Letter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7155-5_5
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