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Progress checking Zarankiewicz’s conjecture on the brick factory problem

Progress checking Zarankiewicz’s conjecture on the brick factory problem

Mathematics

By David Orden

A previous post presented the fascinating history of the brick factory problem, which wonders about the smallest possible number of rail crossings when connecting kilns and storage yards, which is mathematically modeled by the crossing number of the complete bipartite graph . Proposed by Paul Turán after the Second World War, the first advances on […]