The Theorem Becomes Classic

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

Chapter Chapter 37 in The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden, 2015, pp 371-378 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter conveys how Van der Waerden’s theorem on monochromatic arithmetic progressions in finitely colored integers became classic, a “pearl of number theory.” The story includes never before published historical discoveries—not contained even in the author’s “The Mathematical Coloring Book.”

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Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_37

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