An Anti-Aging Pundit Solves a Decades-Old Math Problem

Published: May 8, 2018, 7:12 a.m.

b'In 1950 Edward Nelson, then a student at the University of Chicago, asked the kind of deceptively simple question that can give mathematicians fits for decades. Imagine, he said, a graph\\u2014a collection of points connected by lines. Ensure that all of the lines are exactly the same length, and that everything lies on the plane. Now color all the points, ensuring that no two connected points have the same color.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'