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Proof style in the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem

I recently wrote a tiny bit about the style of the original published proof of the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem. In this note I’ll write a bit about the theorem and a bit more about the style of some later proofs. In particular I want to write about two different readings of […]

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Erdős writing like a programmer

Here is a neat example of famous mathematician Pál Erdős (often rendered in English as Paul Erdős) writing like a programmer in 1961. He goes to some trouble to introduce notation that allows him to index everything from zero.

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Proof style in the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem

Erdős writing like a programmer

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