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Graph theory would not be what it is today if there had been no coloring problems. In fact, a major portion of the 20th-century research in graph theory has its origin in the four-color problem. (See Chapter VIII for details.)
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Balakrishnan, R., Ranganathan, K. (2000). Graph Colorings. In: A Textbook of Graph Theory. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8505-7_7
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