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Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration (www.quantamagazine.org)
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In 1971, Fan Chung, then in her second year of graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, received an assignment. Her thesis adviser, Herbert Wilf, asked her to read the proof of a problem in Ramsey theory, an area of mathematics that explores the inevitable emergence of patterns in networks of vertices and edges called graphs. They planned to discuss it again the following week.

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