I first met my friend and co-worker Tory Parsons in the autumn of 1972 when I first visited Penn State University . We had several long mathematical discussions and I visited him at his home and met his "boss" and "epsilons" which, if I remember right, were quite small at that time . We shared a common interest in graph theory in general and in Ramsey theory in particular . He wrote a nice surv...

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At the beginning of our careers, each of us has the dream of someday making a discovery that will change the way our respective disciplines regard something we now regard as fact. Denis Parsons Burkitt was able to change the course of our thinking twice in his career. More remarkably, the two discov eries were, to the casual observer, in widely different fields of study, i.e., the elucidation o...