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Wolfgang Haken
Haken in 2008
Born(1928-06-21)June 21, 1928
Berlin, Germany
DiedOctober 2, 2022(2022-10-02) (aged 94)
Champaign, Illinois
Alma materKiel University
Known forSolving the four-color theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisorKarl-Heinrich Weise

Wolfgang Haken (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈhaːkn̩]; June 21, 1928 – October 2, 2022) was a German American mathematician who specialized in topology, in particular 3-manifolds.

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Wolfgang Haken (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈhaːkn̩]; June 21, 1928 – October 2, 2022) was a German American mathematician who specialized in topology, in particular...

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Haken manifold

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virtually Haken. This conjecture was proven by Ian Agol. Haken manifolds were introduced by Wolfgang Haken (1961). Haken (1962) proved that Haken manifolds...

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Haken

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contract in Japan Haken manifold, a type of 3-manifold named after Wolfgang Haken Eduard Haken (1910–1996), Czech operatic bass Hermann Haken (born 1927),...

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Four color theorem

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Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. This came after many false proofs and mistaken counterexamples in the preceding decades. The Appel-Haken proof proceeds...

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Kenneth Appel

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19, 2013) was an American mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, solved one of the...

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Hermann Haken

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is a cousin of the mathematician Wolfgang Haken, who proved the Four color theorem. He is a nephew of Werner Haken, a doctoral student of Max Planck...

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Discrete mathematics

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first stated in 1852, but not proved until 1976 (by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken, using substantial computer assistance). In logic, the second problem...

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Graph theory

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computers. A computer-aided proof produced in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken makes fundamental use of the notion of "discharging" developed by Heesch...

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Conjecture

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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...

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Heinrich Heesch

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ingredient of the eventual computer-aided proof by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. Between 1967 and 1971, Heesch made several visits to the United States...

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Dorothea Blostein

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biomechanics and tensegrity. Blostein is the daughter of mathematician Wolfgang Haken, and while she was in high school and college she helped check her father's...

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History of mathematics

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needed] Notable historical conjectures were finally proven. In 1976, Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel proved the four color theorem, controversial at the...

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Wolfgang Tschacher

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cooperation with Haken also yielded philosophical results in a complexity-science formulation of intentionality Starting in 2008, Wolfgang Tschacher joined...

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20th century

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Mass. [u.a.]: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-55406-9. Kenneth Appel; Wolfgang Haken (26 July 1976). "Every Planar Map is Four-Colorable". Bulletin of the...

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List of conjectures

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geometric invariant theory Haboush's theorem 1976 Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken Four color theorem graph colouring Traditionally called a "theorem"...

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List of University of Michigan alumni

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chaos theory Kenneth Ira Appel (Ph.D.), mathematician; in 1976, with Wolfgang Haken, solved one of the most famous problems in mathematics, the four-color...

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Knot theory

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knots. Algorithms exist to solve this problem, with the first given by Wolfgang Haken in the late 1960s (Hass 1998). Nonetheless, these algorithms can be...

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Timeline of mathematics

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objets fractals, forme, hasard et dimension. 1976 – Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken use a computer to prove the Four color theorem. 1981 – Richard Feynman...

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Heegaard splitting

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Heegaard splittings were studied extensively by mathematicians such as Wolfgang Haken and Friedhelm Waldhausen in the 1960s, it was not until a few decades...

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Fulkerson Prize

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classifying many important NP-complete problems. Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken for the four color theorem. Paul Seymour for generalizing the max-flow...

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Heawood number

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is the four-color conjecture, which was settled by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken in 1976. Béla Bollobás, Graph Theory: An Introductory Course, Graduate...

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Graph coloring

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four color theorem was finally proved in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. The proof went back to the ideas of Heawood and Kempe and largely disregarded...

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Deaths in October 2022

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golfer. Pietro Fabris, 87, Italian politician, senator (1987–1996). Wolfgang Haken, 94, German-American mathematician. Chris Harris, 89, English-born American...

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June 21

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and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Seychelles (d. 1996) 1928 – Wolfgang Haken, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 2022) 1928 – Fiorella...

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Illinois Journal of Mathematics

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published the proof of the four color theorem by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken, which featured a then-unusual[citation needed] tabulation of computer-generated...

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June 1976

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Augustus De Morgan. Two mathematicians at the University of Illinois, Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel, announced in Champaign, Illinois that they had used...

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Kempe chain

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modern proofs, such as the first successful one by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. Furthermore, the method is used in the proof of the five-colour theorem...

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