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Four Colors 1.0.0.0 for Windows Phone

A Free Puzzle & Trivia Game

Published By Romandrovich Software

Game "four colors" was invented based on the famous theorem of the four colors. It argues that any geographical map can be colored so that any ... Read More > or Download Now >

Four Colors for Windows Phone

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  • • Version: 1.0.0.0
  • • Price: 0
  • • Content Rating: Not Rated
  • • Requirements: Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Phone 8
  • • File Name: Four-Colors.XAP

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  • • Updated: February 13, 2017

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Game "four colors" was invented based on the famous theorem of the four colors. It argues that any geographical map can be colored so that any countries that have a common border, can be painted in different colors. And that's enough for four colors. For a long time it could not prove it was done only in the 70s. XX century by a computer.

The playing field has a size of 4x4 cells. Side of the playing field painted in blue, green, red and yellow. The first course is painted cell adjacent to the side, each subsequent course can paint the cell, which is adjacent to one of the shaded cells. It is impossible to paint the color of the cell so that colored in one of the adjacent cells (including diagonal) or adjacent to the cell surface. The winner is the player who makes the last move.

For convenience, all the moves that a player can make are highlighted with small chips. To select a color chips that you want to go, click on the corresponding chip at the bottom of the board.

History
In mathematics, the four color theorem, or the four color map theorem, states that, given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, no more than four colors are required to color the regions of the map so that no two adjacent regions have the same color. Two regions are called adjacent if they share a common boundary that is not a corner, where corners are the points shared by three or more regions. For example, in the map of the United States of America, Utah and Arizona are adjacent, but Utah and New Mexico, which only share a point that also belongs to Arizona and Colorado, are not.

Despite the motivation from coloring political maps of countries, the theorem is not of particular interest to mapmakers. According to an article by the math historian Kenneth May (Wilson 2002, 2), “Maps utilizing only four colors are rare, and those that do usually require only three. Books on cartography and the history of mapmaking do not mention the four-color property.”

Three colors are adequate for simpler maps, but an additional fourth color is required for some maps, such as a map in which one region is surrounded by an odd number of other regions that touch each other in a cycle. The five color theorem, which has a short elementary proof, states that five colors suffice to color a map and was proven in the late 19th century (Heawood 1890); however, proving that four colors suffice turned out to be significantly harder. A number of false proofs and false counterexamples have appeared since the first statement of the four color theorem in 1852.

The four color theorem was proven in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. It was the first major theorem to be proved using a computer. Appel and Haken's approach started by showing that there is a particular set of 1,936 maps, each of which cannot be part of a smallest-sized counterexample to the four color theorem. (If they did appear, you could make a smaller counter-example.) Appel and Haken used a special-purpose computer program to confirm that each of these maps had this property. Additionally, any map that could potentially be a counterexample must have a portion that looks like one of these 1,936 maps. Showing this required hundreds of pages of hand analysis. Appel and Haken concluded that no smallest counterexamples exists because any must contain, yet do not contain, one of these 1,936 maps. This contradiction means there are no counterexamples at all and that the theorem is therefore true. Initially, their proof was not accepted by all mathematicians because the computer-assisted proof was infeasible for a human to check by hand (Swart 1980). Since then the proof has gained wider acceptance, although doubts remain (Wilson 2002, 216–222).

To dispel remaining doubt about the Appel–Haken proof, a simpler proof using the same ideas and still relying on computers was published in 1997 by Robertson, Sanders, Seymour, and Thomas. Additionally in 2005, the theorem was proven by Georges Gonthier with general purpose theorem proving software.

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