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whose ideas shaped the course of graph theory in the twentieth
century. I wish I had known at the time that the work I was
doing at the Fields would eventually allow me to extend one
of his theorems.
Over the past twenty years I have had the opportunity
to teach math to thousands of children. I have seen many
children cheer for math or beg