A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End(quantamagazine.org)

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A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-puzzle-of-clever-connections-nears-a-happy-end-20170530/

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As soon as Ronald Graham turned up it wasn't surprisinng that this was related to Ramsey Theory, even as a non-mathematician. Graham's Number is such a wonderfully large thing that introduced me to tetration and up-arrow notation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

ehsquared9 anni fa

I like the terms "cup" and "cap". They correspond to the LaTeX shortcuts \cup and \cap for set union (∪) and set intersection (∩).