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The seven-colour map

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Roger F. Wheeler*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, The University, Leicester LE1 7RH

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Classroom Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1974

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Page No 47 note † A good method is described in Cundy and Rollett’s Mathematical models (2nd edition, Oxford, 1961), p. 168. This can, however, be simplified by dividing the ‘waist’ of the torus into two parts instead of three and letting the ‘helical’ curve return to its starting point after only two circuits: the rest of the construction is the same. With this method, which corresponds to Fig. 1 above, the hexagons are less elongated.

Page No 47 note ‡ Ibid. p. 144.