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1 / The Foundations: Logic and Proofs
FIGURE 7
Coloring the Squares of the Standard Checkerboard
with Three Colors.
squares. This contradicts the fact that this board contains 20 blue squares, 21 black squares, and
22 white squares. Therefore we cannot tile this board using straight triominoes.
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The Role of Open Problems
Many advances in mathematics have been made by people trying to solve famous unsolved
problems. In the past 20 years, many unsolved problems have finally been resolved, such as the
proof of a conjecture in number theory made more than 300 years ago. This conjecture asserts
the truth of the statement known as
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