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Frank Plumpton Ramsey was an extraordinary man. He was born in 1903 in Cambridge as the elder son of A.S. Ramsey who was a mathematician and President of Magdalene College. His younger brother Michael went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Prömel, H.J. (2013). Ramsey’s Theorem. In: Ramsey Theory for Discrete Structures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01315-2_1
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