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Van Der Waerden's Theorem
Van der Waerden's theorem is a theorem in the branch of mathematics called Ramsey theory. Van der Waerden's theorem states that for any given positive integers ''r'' and ''k'', there is some number ''N'' such that if the integers are colored, each with one of ''r'' different colors, then there are at least ''k'' integers in arithmetic progression whose elements are of the same color. The least such ''N'' is the Van der Waerden number ''W''(''r'', ''k''), named after the Dutch mathematician B. L. van der Waerden. Example For example, when ''r'' = 2, you have two colors, say and . ''W''(2, 3) is bigger than 8, because you can color the integers from like this: and no three integers of the same color form an arithmetic progression. But you can't add a ninth integer to the end without creating such a progression. If you add a , then the , , and are in arithmetic progression. Alternatively, if you add a , then the , , and are in arithmetic progression. In fact, there i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematics
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics with the major subdisciplines of number theory, algebra, geometry, and analysis, respectively. There is no general consensus among mathematicians about a common definition for their academic discipline. Most mathematical activity involves the discovery of properties of abstract objects and the use of pure reason to prove them. These objects consist of either abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicsentities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. A ''proof'' consists of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established results. These results include previously proved theorems, axioms, andin case of abstraction from naturesome basic properties that are considered true starting poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saharon Shelah
Saharon Shelah ( he, שהרן שלח; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Biography Shelah was born in Jerusalem on July 3, 1945. He is the son of the Israeli poet and political activist Yonatan Ratosh. He received his PhD for his work on stable theories in 1969 from the Hebrew University. Shelah is married to Yael, and has three children. His brother, magistrate judge Hamman Shelah was murdered along with his wife and daughter by an Egyptian soldier in the Ras Burqa massacre in 1985. Shelah planned to be a scientist while at primary school, but initially was attracted to physics and biology, not mathematics. Later he found mathematical beauty in studying geometry: He said, "But when I reached the ninth grade I began studying geometry and my eyes opened to that beauty—a system of demonstration and theorems based on a very small number of axioms which i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rado's Theorem (Ramsey Theory)
Rado's theorem is a theorem from the branch of mathematics known as Ramsey theory. It is named for the German mathematician Richard Rado. It was proved in his thesis, ''Studien zur Kombinatorik''. Statement Let A \mathbf = \mathbf be a system of linear equations, where A is a matrix with integer entries. This system is said to be r''-regular'' if, for every r-coloring of the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ..., the system has a monochromatic solution. A system is ''regular'' if it is ''r-regular'' for all ''r'' ≥ 1. Rado's theorem states that a system A \mathbf = \mathbf is regular if and only if the matrix ''A'' satisfies the ''columns condition''. Let ''ci'' denote the ''i''-th column of ''A''. The matrix ''A'' satisfies the columns condition provided that there exists a partition ''C''1, ''C''2, ..., ''C''''n'' of the column indices such that if s_i = \Sigma_c_j, then # ''s''1 = 0 # for all ''i'' ≥ 2, ''si'' can be written as a rati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hales–Jewett Theorem
In mathematics, the Hales–Jewett theorem is a fundamental combinatorial result of Ramsey theory named after Alfred W. Hales and Robert I. Jewett, concerning the degree to which high-dimensional objects must necessarily exhibit some combinatorial structure; it is impossible for such objects to be "completely random". An informal geometric statement of the theorem is that for any positive integers ''n'' and ''c'' there is a number ''H'' such that if the cells of a ''H''-dimensional ''n''×''n''×''n''×...×''n'' cube are colored with ''c'' colors, there must be one row, column, or certain diagonal (more details below) of length ''n'' all of whose cells are the same color. In other words, the higher-dimensional, multi-player, ''n''-in-a-row generalization of a game of tic-tac-toe cannot end in a draw, no matter how large ''n'' is, no matter how many people ''c'' are playing, and no matter which player plays each turn, provided only that it is played on a board of sufficiently hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Der Waerden Game
A van is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people. Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and bigger than a common car. There is some varying in the scope of the word across the different English-speaking countries. The smallest vans, microvans, are used for transporting either goods or people in tiny quantities. Mini MPVs, compact MPVs, and MPVs are all small vans usually used for transporting people in small quantities. Larger vans with passenger seats are used for institutional purposes, such as transporting students. Larger vans with only front seats are often used for business purposes, to carry goods and equipment. Specially-equipped vans are used by television stations as mobile studios. Postal services and courier companies use large step vans to deliver packages. Word origin and usage Van meaning a type of vehicle arose as a contraction of the word caravan. The earliest records of a van as a vehicle i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generalized Arithmetic Progression
In mathematics, a generalized arithmetic progression (or multiple arithmetic progression) is a generalization of an arithmetic progression equipped with multiple common differences – whereas an arithmetic progression is generated by a single common difference, a generalized arithmetic progression can be generated by multiple common differences. For example, the sequence 17, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, \dots is not an arithmetic progression, but is instead generated by starting with 17 and adding either 3 ''or'' 5, thus allowing multiple common differences to generate it. A semilinear set generalizes this idea to multiple dimensions -- it is a set of vectors of integers, rather than a set of integers. Arithmetic Progression:-"There exit a common different that is d that we add to the previous term in output it is called arithmetic progression Finite generalized arithmetic progression A finite generalized arithmetic progression, or sometimes just generalized arithmetic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematical Induction
Mathematical induction is a method for proving that a statement ''P''(''n'') is true for every natural number ''n'', that is, that the infinitely many cases ''P''(0), ''P''(1), ''P''(2), ''P''(3), ... all hold. Informal metaphors help to explain this technique, such as falling dominoes or climbing a ladder: A proof by induction consists of two cases. The first, the base case, proves the statement for ''n'' = 0 without assuming any knowledge of other cases. The second case, the induction step, proves that ''if'' the statement holds for any given case ''n'' = ''k'', ''then'' it must also hold for the next case ''n'' = ''k'' + 1. These two steps establish that the statement holds for every natural number ''n''. The base case does not necessarily begin with ''n'' = 0, but often with ''n'' = 1, and possibly with any fixed natural number ''n'' = ''N'', establishing the truth of the statement for all natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigeonhole Principle
In mathematics, the pigeonhole principle states that if items are put into containers, with , then at least one container must contain more than one item. For example, if one has three gloves (and none is ambidextrous/reversible), then there must be at least two right-handed gloves, or at least two left-handed gloves, because there are three objects, but only two categories of handedness to put them into. This seemingly obvious statement, a type of counting argument, can be used to demonstrate possibly unexpected results. For example, given that the population of London is greater than the maximum number of hairs that can be present on a human's head, then the pigeonhole principle requires that there must be at least two people in London who have the same number of hairs on their heads. Although the pigeonhole principle appears as early as 1624 in a book attributed to Jean Leurechon, it is commonly called Dirichlet's box principle or Dirichlet's drawer principle after an 1834 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proceedings Of The American Mathematical Society
''Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society. As a requirement, all articles must be at most 15 printed pages. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 0.813. Scope ''Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society'' publishes articles from all areas of pure and applied mathematics, including topology, geometry, analysis, algebra, number theory, combinatorics, logic, probability and statistics. Abstracting and indexing This journal is indexed in the following databases: 2011. American Mathematical Society. * |
Hales–Jewett Theorem
In mathematics, the Hales–Jewett theorem is a fundamental combinatorial result of Ramsey theory named after Alfred W. Hales and Robert I. Jewett, concerning the degree to which high-dimensional objects must necessarily exhibit some combinatorial structure; it is impossible for such objects to be "completely random". An informal geometric statement of the theorem is that for any positive integers ''n'' and ''c'' there is a number ''H'' such that if the cells of a ''H''-dimensional ''n''×''n''×''n''×...×''n'' cube are colored with ''c'' colors, there must be one row, column, or certain diagonal (more details below) of length ''n'' all of whose cells are the same color. In other words, assuming ''n'' and ''c'' are fixed, the higher-dimensional, multi-player, ''n''-in-a-row generalization of a game of tic-tac-toe with ''c'' players cannot end in a draw, no matter how large ''n'' is, no matter how many people ''c'' are playing, and no matter which player plays each turn, provided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szemerédi's Theorem
In arithmetic combinatorics, Szemerédi's theorem is a result concerning arithmetic progressions in subsets of the integers. In 1936, Erdős and Turán conjectured that every set of integers ''A'' with positive natural density contains a ''k''-term arithmetic progression for every ''k''. Endre Szemerédi proved the conjecture in 1975. Statement A subset ''A'' of the natural numbers is said to have positive upper density if :\limsup_\frac > 0. Szemerédi's theorem asserts that a subset of the natural numbers with positive upper density contains infinitely many arithmetic progressions of length ''k'' for all positive integers ''k''. An often-used equivalent finitary version of the theorem states that for every positive integer ''k'' and real number \delta \in (0, 1], there exists a positive integer :N = N(k,\delta) such that every subset of of size at least δ''N'' contains an arithmetic progression of length ''k''. Another formulation uses the function ''r''''k''(''N''), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramsey Theory
Ramsey theory, named after the British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of mathematics that focuses on the appearance of order in a substructure given a structure of a known size. Problems in Ramsey theory typically ask a question of the form: "how big must some structure be to guarantee that a particular property holds?" More specifically, Ron Graham described Ramsey theory as a "branch of combinatorics". Examples A typical result in Ramsey theory starts with some mathematical structure that is then cut into pieces. How big must the original structure be in order to ensure that at least one of the pieces has a given interesting property? This idea can be defined as partition regularity. For example, consider a complete graph of order ''n''; that is, there are ''n'' vertices and each vertex is connected to every other vertex by an edge. A complete graph of order 3 is called a triangle. Now colour each edge either red or blue. How large must ''n'' be i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
