4-color theorem

The only correct, simple and elegant proof of
the
4-color theorem

The 4-color theorem is a well-known math problem
with
no readable proof. Spending years I finished a
correct, simple and elegant proof of it. If you read
it you will think it's the only one we can have. I
first sent my paper, not well written, to some
journals. May be 1 year later, the editors said they
did not accept it. Then I revised it and it is
simple
and elegant now, but the editors said "we do not
have
the refereeing resources to have all such papers
assessed properly." In fact they have already known
the contents of my submission. They are reluctant to
see such proof different from the old arithmetic one
to be published. Please tell me how to do with it.
Is
there anywhere to submit correct proof paper? I will
let the person read it if who promise paying for no
flaw found.

Sincerely
Cui Shitai
cuishitai12000@yahoo.com.cn

Dear Dr. Cui Shitai:
We receive a number of papers every year claiming to
present solutions to famous unsolved problems or to
give simple proofs of well-known theorems. In
particular, we receive a number of submissions on
the
four-color theorem. Unfortunately, we do not have
the
refereeing resources to have all such papers
assessed
properly. In view of this, we cannot offer you
encouraging words and we are unable to accept your
paper for publication.

Thank you for considering the Journal.

Yours sincerely,

Nick Wormald
Editor in Chief
Canada Research Chair in Combinatorics and
Optimization
Dept of Combinatorics and Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON
CANADA N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 885-1211
Fax: (519) 725-5441

Dear professor
I have a proof for 4-color theorem 5 pages long. I
cannot to find a journal to consider it.
Can you give me any advice? It has submitted to
annals
of mathematics, not accepted but they
didn't tell the reason.
Thank you very much
Sincerely yours,
Cui Shitai

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Why don't you post the proof

Why don't you post the proof here and let everyone give it a once over?

Probably

the following sentence has something to do with it:

I will let the person read it if who promise paying for no flaw found.

cuishitai, I sincerely hope that your claim is true. However, I think you'll get a better answer if you post this question at math sites instead, such as http://planetmath.org, http://mathforge.net

or the sci.math newsgroup.

Off topic

I think you'll get a better answer if you post this question at math sites

Exactly. This subject is completely off topic for this site. Lambda the Ultimate is dedicated to the study of programming languages.

I thought there was a proof in Coq?

As per the subject, wasn't there a human readable proof in coq recently? ah yes, http://research.microsoft.com/%7Egonthier/

" To achieve this, we have written a formal proof script that covers both the mathematical and computational parts of the proof. We have run this script through the Coq proof checking system [13,9], which mechanically verified its correctness in all respects. Hence, even though the correctness of our proof still depends on the correct operation of several computer hardware and software components (the processor, its operating system, the Coq proof checker, and the Ocaml compiler that compiled it), none of these components are specific to the proof of the Four Colour Theorem. All of them come off-the-shelf, fulfill a more general purpose, and can be (and are) tested extensively on numerous other jobs, probably much more than the mind of an individual mathematician reviewing a proof manuscript could ever be."'

also:

http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0408247/

oops, on edit: found via logblog