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Heawood Graph

Combinatorics and Graph Theory

In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Heawood graph is an undirected graph with 14 vertices and 21 edges, named after Percy John Heawood. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Geometric Object 1
Origin Year
1890 1
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1. Heawood Graph (Wikipedia)
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    In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Heawood graph is an undirected graph with 14 vertices and 21 edges, named after Percy John Heawood.
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    The map and graph were discovered by Percy John Heawood in 1890, who proved that no map on the torus could require more than seven colors and thus this map is maximal.
  • In Branch: Graph Theory, Lead sentence
    In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Heawood graph is an undirected graph with 14 vertices and 21 edges, named after Per
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