10-327/Classnotes for Thursday October 21

DBN: Classes: 2010-11: 10-327/Navigation Additions to the MAT 327 web site no longer count towards good deed points # Week of... Notes and Links 1 Sep 13 About This Class, Monday - Continuity and open sets, Thursday - topologies, continuity, bases. 2 Sep 20 Monday - More on bases, Thursdsay - Products, Subspaces, Closed sets, HW1, HW1 Solutions 3 Sep 27 Monday - the Cantor set, closures, Thursday, Class Photo, HW2, HW2 Solutions 4 Oct 4 Monday - the axiom of choice and infinite product spaces, Thursday - the box and the product topologies, metric spaces, HW3, HW3 Solutions 5 Oct 11 Monday is Thanksgiving. Thursday - metric spaces, sequencial closures, various products. Final exam's date announced on Friday. 6 Oct 18 Monday - connectedness in ${\mathbb {R} }$, HW4, HW4 Solutions, Thursday - connectedness, path-connectedness and products 7 Oct 25 Monday - Compactness of $[0,1]$, Term Test on Thursday, TT Solutions 8 Nov 1 Monday - compact is closed and bounded, maximal values, HW5, HW5 Solutions, Wednesday was the last date to drop this course, Thursday - compactness of products and in metric spaces, the FIP 9 Nov 8 Monday-Tuesday is Fall Break, Thursday - Tychonoff and a taste of Stone-Cech, HW6, HW6 Solutions 10 Nov 15 Monday - generalized limits, Thursday - Normal spaces and Urysohn's lemma, HW7, HW7 Solutions 11 Nov 22 Monday - $T_{3.5}$ and $I^{A}$, Thursday - Tietze's theorem 12 Nov 29 Monday - compactness in metric spaces, HW8, HW8 Solutions, Thursday - completeness and compactness 13 Dec 6 Monday - Baire spaces and no-where differentiable functions, Wednesday - Hilbert's 13th problem; also see December 2010 Schedule R Dec 13 See December 2010 Schedule F Dec 20 Final exam, Monday December 20, 2PM-5PM, at BR200 Register of Good Deeds Add your name / see who's in! See Hilbert's 13th

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Riddle Along

Can you color $\mathbb {R} ^{2}$ with 4 colors such that no points with distance one are the same color? Sorry, I meant 3, not 4!

10-327/Solution to coloring R2

• Are you asking us to solve the Hadwiger-Nelson problem?
  • Only to give the relatively easy bound... Drorbn 08:58, 6 November 2010 (EDT)
    • Perhaps I am misreading the question, but according to the Wikipedia article and some quick conformational googling, it seems to be an open question as to whether or not it is possible with four colours. Three and Seven seem to be the easy bounds. Though, I suppose it is possible that four has recently been ruled out and the results require a bit more searching to find. Indecently, this was the Wikipedia's Mathmatics portal picture of the month which is how I stumbled across it. - Johnfleming
      • Ooops, I had a typo! Sorry. Anyway, now the problem becomes a bit pointless, as right above there's a link to its solution... Drorbn 18:32, 6 November 2010 (EDT)