In the fall of 1972, Vance Faber was a new professor at the University of Colorado. When two influential mathematicians, Paul ErdÅ‘s and László Lovász, came for a visit, Faber decided to host a tea ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.