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The elegance of Ramsey's proof of R(3,3) was what turned me on to Combinatorics and Graph Theory.

Cool.

But, a minor correction: Frank Ramsey merely proved (in 1930) a theorem equivalent to the statement that Ramsey numbers are well-defined. The study of the values of particular Ramsey numbers seems to have been started in 1955 by Robert Greenwood and Andrew Gleason, and I believe they are the first ones to note that R(3,3)=6.

Disclaimer: Combinatorics is my field. History of mathematics is not. And corrections are welcome.

He lost me at "As a computer scientist, I am of course highly familiar with the local party scene."

I thought this would be a drinking game to play while watching Kitchen Nightmares.

Ramsey Parties