%0 Journal Article
%T On the history of van der Waerden's theorem on arithmetic progressions
%A Tom C. Brown
%A Jau-Shyong Peter Shiue
%J Tamkang Journal of Mathematics
%D 2001
%I Tamkang University
%R 10.5556/j.tkjm.32.2001.335-341
%X In this expository note, we discuss the celebrated theorem known as ``van der Waerden's theorem on arithmetic progressions", the history of work on upper and lower bounds for the function associated with this theorem, a number of generalizations, and some open problems.
%U http://journals.math.tku.edu.tw/index.php/TKJM/article/view/348