[FRIAM] Ramsey a pragmatist mathmatician?

[Steve Smith]

Jon -

I'm not entirely sure of the timing, FrankW may have some input on this,
but I believe that Erdos visited Berkeley many times during some of PK
Dick's most fecund/fetid years...   this makes me wonder if they sat on
curb on Telegraph sharing a bottle of MD-2020 now and then, swapping
ideas like this one...

   
https://www.dailycal.org/2018/03/04/phillip-k-dick-berkeley-retrospective/

FWIW for SF geeks,  Ursula Le Guin graduated from Berkeley HS with PK
Dick but never knew him until they both became well known...

On 3/2/21 11:44 PM, jon zingale wrote:
> "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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