question about literature in the field of Ramsey's theory [closed]

i am searching for an on- line paper or a book, or maybe just a paper or a book which consists a proof of finite Ramsey's theorem for sets (not for graphs). i need a combinatorial proof which is not written as a consenquence of the infinite Ramsey's theorem. i know that such paper exits because i have had it few years ago, but i can't remember the name of the paper or the author.

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• What do you mean by Ramsey for sets? For hypergraphs? – Fedor Petrov Feb 5 '16 at 10:53
• no. it is not in the language of graphs. – Ana Feb 5 '16 at 11:28
• Would you please state the form of Ramsey's theorem you want proved? As for the classical finite Ramsey theorem that was already proved (not as a consequence of the infinite Ramsey theorem) in Ramsey's original 1930 paper. – bof Feb 5 '16 at 11:35
• For all natural numbers e, r and k there exists a recursive function R(e,r,k) so that for all M subsets of N such that size of M is greater or equal to R(e,r,k) and all subsets of M of size e are coloured with one of r colours, there is a subset H (of M) of size k such that all e- sized subsets of H are coloured with the same colour.... it can be said in the language of tje hypergraphs, but i need a combinatorial proof for the statement stated as above. – Ana Feb 5 '16 at 11:39

Douglas West - Introduction to graph theory, Theorem 8.3.7. It is Ramsey's theorem for sets, in the form $R(e, p_1, ..., p_k)$. That is, for all sets $N$ with size at least $R(e, p_1, ..., p_k)$, and all colorings of the $e$-subsets of $N$, there exists an i, and a set M of size p_i, such that all the $e$-subsets of $M$ get color $i$. However the actual proof only does $R(e, p_1, p_2)$, which appears to be what you are looking for.