The Secret of Ramsey Numbers

(cacm.acm.org)

42 points | by pseudolus a day ago ago

4 comments

  • pvg 16 hours ago

    Related thread about a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38590156

  • TheRealPomax 8 hours ago

    For those who want a prefilter, Ramsey numbers are the minimum number of guests, written R(m, n), that must be invited so that at least m guests will know each other or at least n guests will not know each other.

    Or in math: the minimum number of vertices in a fully connected graph that guarantee a clique of order m, or an independent set of order n.

    • n4r9 4 hours ago

      What do you mean by "fully connected" here?

      • IncreasePosts an hour ago

        For every set of two vertices, there is at least one path that connects them.