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  2. Ramsey theory - Wikipedia

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    Ramsey theory, named after the British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of the mathematical field of combinatorics that focuses on the appearance of order in a substructure given a structure of a known size. Problems in Ramsey theory typically ask a question of the form: "how big must some structure be to guarantee ...

  3. Ramsey's theorem - Wikipedia

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    In the language of graph theory, the Ramsey number is the minimum number of vertices, v = R(m, n), such that all undirected simple graphs of order v, contain a clique of order m, or an independent set of order n. Ramsey's theorem states that such a number exists for all m and n. By symmetry, it is true that R(m, n) = R(n, m).

  4. Theorem on friends and strangers - Wikipedia

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    78 of the 156 possible friends-strangers graphs with 6 nodes. The other 78 can be obtained by reversing the red and blue colours of each graph. For each graph the red/blue nodes shows a sample triplet of mutual friends/strangers. The theorem on friends and strangers is a mathematical theorem in an area of mathematics called Ramsey theory.

  5. Van der Waerden's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Van der Waerden's theorem is a theorem in the branch of mathematics called Ramsey theory.Van der Waerden's theorem states that for any given positive integers r and k, there is some number N such that if the integers {1, 2, ..., N} are colored, each with one of r different colors, then there are at least k integers in arithmetic progression whose elements are of the same color.

  6. Structural Ramsey theory - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, structural Ramsey theory is a categorical generalisation of Ramsey theory, rooted in the idea that many important results of Ramsey theory have "similar" logical structures. The key observation is noting that these Ramsey-type theorems can be expressed as the assertion that a certain category (or class of finite structures) has ...

  7. Ramsey problem - Wikipedia

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    The Ramsey problem, or Ramsey pricing, or Ramsey–Boiteux pricing, is a second-best policy problem concerning what prices a public monopoly should charge for the various products it sells in order to maximize social welfare (the sum of producer and consumer surplus) while earning enough revenue to cover its fixed costs.

  8. Boolean Pythagorean triples problem - Wikipedia

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    The Boolean Pythagorean triples problem is a problem from Ramsey theory about whether the positive integers can ... For example, in the Pythagorean triple 3, 4, and 5 ...

  9. Ramsey class - Wikipedia

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    In the area of mathematics known as Ramsey theory, a Ramsey class [1] is one which satisfies a generalization of Ramsey's theorem. Suppose A {\displaystyle A} , B {\displaystyle B} and C {\displaystyle C} are structures and k {\displaystyle k} is a positive integer.