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Some Combinatorial Theorems on Monotonicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

V. Chvátal
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
J. Komlόs
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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P. Erdös and G. Szekeres [1] proved that from any points in the plane one can always choose n + 1 of them which are the vertices of a convex polygon, thus answering a question due to Miss Esther Klein (who later became Mrs. G. Szekeres).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

References

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