Associations to the word «Ramsey»

Wiktionary

RAMSEY, proper noun. Any of a number of places, including a the third-largest town in the Isle of Man and a small town in Huntingdonshire, England
RAMSEY, proper noun. A habitational surname​ from the town in Huntingdonshire.
RAMSEY, proper noun. A male given name transferred from the surname.
RAMSEY NUMBER, noun. (combinatorics) Any one of a certain set of numbers which are guaranteed to exist by Ramsey's theorem; a positive integer which is a certain function of some given multiset of positive integers, where that "certain function" is that which yields the minimal number guaranteed to exist by Ramsey's theorem.
RAMSEY THEORY, noun. (mathematics) A branch of mathematics which deals with the unexpected patterns which inevitably arise in sufficiently large data sets.

Wise words

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