2010/07/19 by Francisco Santos
Mathematics · #math.CO #msc:52B05 #msc:52B55 #msc:90C05 #acm:52B05 #acm:52B55 #acm:90C05
published as La Gaceta de la RSME, Vol. 13 (2010), Num. 3, 525-538 · 14 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2010/07/19 · arxiv updated 2013/04/30
This is an expository paper (in Spanish) describing the origin and history of the Hirsch Conjecture about the maximum diameter of graphs of polytopes, and the ideas that led to the counter-example to it recently announced by the author in arxiv:1006.2814