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unusual facts about Kenneth Appel


Heinrich Heesch

In particular, he was the first to investigate the notion of "discharging", which turned out to be a fundamental ingredient of the eventual computer-aided proof by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken.



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Wallace Carothers

In early June he was admitted involuntarily to the Philadelphia Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, a prestigious mental hospital, where his psychiatrist was Dr. Kenneth Appel.