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Some Progression-Free Partitions Constructed using Folkman's Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John R. Rabung
John R. Rabung*
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Department Of Mathematical Sciences Virginia Commonwealth University901 West Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia23284
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Almost from the day that B. L. van der Waerden [10] proved his now famous theorem on arithmetic progressions, mathematicians have been working to find a new or an improved constructive proof of that result, but without much success.

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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , 01 March 1979 , pp. 87 - 91
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1979

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