Rob Morris, Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos
Rob Morris, Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos
In many different areas of mathematics (such as number theory, discrete geometry, and combinatorics), one is often presented with a large "unstructured" object, and asked to find a smaller "structured" object inside it. One of the earliest and most influential examples of this phenomenon was the theorem of Ramsey, proved in 1930, which states that …