[FRIAM] Ramsey a pragmatist mathmatician?

[Frank Wimberly]

I know Erdos was at Berkeley in 1965 when he used to hang out in the Math
Library where I worked.  I don't think he sat on a curb on Telegraph Ave.
A bus would have run over his legs.

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On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 9:45 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> 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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