Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove?

Alexander Soifer
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Alexander Soifer: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

Chapter Chapter 38 in The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden, 2015, pp 379-401 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents a most fascinating historical investigation answering the question, who conjectured the famous theorem proven by Van der Waerden in 1926.

Keywords: Arithmetic Progression; Chess Player; Ramsey Theory; Rowing Boat; Stone House (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_38

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