The Friendship Theorem

Karol Pąk

Formalized Mathematics (2012)

  • Volume: 20, Issue: 3, page 235-237
  • ISSN: 1426-2630

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In this article we prove the friendship theorem according to the article [1], which states that if a group of people has the property that any pair of persons have exactly one common friend, then there is a universal friend, i.e. a person who is a friend of every other person in the group

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Karol Pąk. "The Friendship Theorem." Formalized Mathematics 20.3 (2012): 235-237. <http://eudml.org/doc/267893>.

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