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Pseudoscience in four glorious colors

Posted on 2007-01-04 by Joel Martinsen

Philosopher Li Ming (黎鸣) threatened to commit suicide if his Laozi-based proof of the Four Color Theorem was wrong. Turns out it is. Also, Liu Zihua’s Eight Trigrams Cosmology (八卦宇宙学理) as an example of the relationship of traditional Chinese culture to modern science.

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A theorem, a crank, and a duel to the death

Posted on 2006-08-22 by Joel Martinsen

Philosopher Li Ming (黎鸣) and anti-fraud activist Fang Zhouzi (方舟子) square off in a duel to the death over the four color problem (四色难题).

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