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Not schoolwork — the questions that resisted Erdős, Hilbert, and everyone since. The club keeps three shelves: what is still open, what AI recently settled, and what took humanity centuries.

Tagged formalization — 1 entry. Clear

Four colours suffice for any map. The first major theorem proved by a computer — and the first mathematical controversy about what a proof is.

Posed by Francis Guthrie · 1852 · graph theory · resolved 1976 · difficulty 3/5

graph-theory formalization