Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

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As of September 2026: Co-led the new proof; supervised graduate students who ran months of computation

The four-color theorem says any map can be colored with four colors so no neighboring regions match. A team of six mathematicians posted a new proof in March 2026 that colors any planar graph in near-linear time, down from quadratic in the previous accepted proof.

Updated Sep 11