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216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Impossibility of Total Disorder
There was one little piece of advanced math that appeared in the book that I thought was very amusing and I would like to understand better myself. Ramsey theory is just the idea that with a big enough set, a big enough number of connections, among the elements, you're going to necessarily have some bit of order. With bigger sets, you need a much bigger set to have more order, but it's impossible to not have any bit of Order.
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