[FRIAM] Ramsey a pragmatist mathmatician?

[jon zingale]

"Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's
time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue
five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and
within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded
the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice
but to launch a preemptive attack."
- Paul Erdős



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