Abstract
We’ve probably all been to a party of some sort. And it always happens at a party that there are some people we know and some people we don’t know. What’s more, some of the people we know, know some of the people we know. Sometimes there’s a group that goes around together. They all know each other. Such a group is often called a clique.
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Hilton, P., Holton, D., Pedersen, J. (2002). Parties. In: Mathematical Vistas. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3681-6_9
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