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A computing scientist's approach to a once-deep theorem of Sylvester's (1988)
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deanmen
on May 10, 2015
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drallison
on May 10, 2015
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The Wikipedia article is also interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%E2%80%93Gallai_theore...
jmount
on May 10, 2015
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Béla Bollobás "The Art of Mathematics" has a very nice treatment of this problem (the history, multiple proofs) as problem number 33. And Aigner, Zeigler "Proofs from THE BOOK" also has a good treatment.
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