[FRIAM] Ramsey a pragmatist mathmatician?

[Marcus Daniels]

All-in on quantum computing!   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11128-016-1363-3

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"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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