List by Author: Imre Leader

Friends and strangers

Can we always find order in systems that are disordered? If so, just how large does a system have to be to contain a certain amount of order?

Friends and strangersSometimes a mathematical object can be so big that, however disorderly we make the object, areas of order are bound to emerge. Imre Leader looks at the colourful world of Ramsey Theory.
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