Mathematician:Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Mathematician

British mathematican most famous for founding the field of what is now called Ramsey Theory.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: 22 February 1903, Cambridge, UK.
• Died: 19 January 1930, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.

Theorems and Definitions

• Ramsey Theory
• Ramsey Number
• Ramsey-Lewis Method
• Ramsey-Dvoretzky-Milman Phenomenon
• Ramsey Growth Model
• Ramsey's Theorem

Results named for Frank Plumpton Ramsey can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Frank Plumpton Ramsey can be found here.

Publications

• 1925: The Foundations of Mathematics
• 1926: Mathematical Logic (The Mathematical Gazette Vol. 184: pp. 185 – 194)  www.jstor.org/stable/3602860
• 1926: Truth and Probability
• 1927: Facts and Propositions (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes Vol. 7: pp. 153 – 170)
• 1927: A Contribution to the Theory of Taxation (Economic Journal Vol. 37, no. 145)
• 1928: A Mathematical Theory of Saving' (Economic Journal Vol. 38, no. 152)
• 1930: On a Problem in Formal Logic (Proc. London Math. Soc. Vol. 30: pp. 264 – 286)
• 1964: Truth and Probability (Studies in Subjective Probability pp. 69 – 92) (edited by H.E. Kyburg, Jr. and H.E. Smokler)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Frank Plumpton Ramsey": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive