Talk:Heawood conjecture

Does anyone have a reference for the statement that the chromatic number of the klein bottle is 6? Dmharvey Talk 02:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

How can the conjecture be considered proven before the genus 0 case was settled? Am I missing something obvious here? Octonion (talk) 23:09, 20 January 2022 (UTC)


 * It's just that the conjecture only made a claim about surfaces with non-zero genus (even though the statement of the theorem happens to give the right answer for genus 0). JZacharyG (talk) 19:11, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Incorrect description of proof
I'm pretty sure that the 12 cases into which this proof was divided were based on the chromatic number mod 12 (equivalently, the size of the complete graph that was being embedded mod 12), not the genus of the surface mod 12. This is how it is described in "Map Color Theorem", Ringel's 1974 book about the proof. JZacharyG (talk) 19:17, 23 January 2024 (UTC)