A tribute to Frank P. Ramsey, 1903–1930

✍ Scribed by Frank Harary

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 628 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-9024
• DOI: 10.1002/jgt.3190070102

✦ Synopsis

The celebrated paper [25] of Ramsey has stimulated an enormous study in both graph theory as surveyed by Burr [ 11 and Parsons [24] and the author [ 121, and other branches of mathematics as reported by Graham, Spencer, and Rothschild [9]. Most certainly "ramsey theory" is now an established and growing branch of combinatorics. Its results are often easy to state (after they have been found) and dificult to prove; they are beautiful when exact, and colorful. Unsolved problems abound, as reviewed in [ 131, and additional interesting open questions arise faster than solutions to the existing problems.

This special issue of the Journal of Graph Theory dedicated to the memory of Frank P. Ramsey was stimulated by my 1980-81 sabbatical year