[IceMichael]

I get that this is really interesting and I surely enjoyed the read... But has it really any practical implications? I mean, in a sense, there are so many mathematical riddles... Anyways, I'm fine to ignore this question. Very nice!

[throw_pm23]

Before someone jumps at you for daring to ask this question... yes, there are many many math riddles, and indeed not all are equally important, and we may not always know in advance which ones are.

Some turn out to be more "productive" in the sense of leading to development of techniques, connections to other fields, etc.

Ramsey theory (the riddle discussed in the article) is one of these, here is just a short list of nontrivial applications to CS (admittedly, mostly to theory of CS):

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/TOPICS/ramsey/ramsey.html

[IceMichael]

Interesting, thank you!

[treprinum]

Not sure, one can just state that chaos does not exist as with a huge number of items (10^200+) some sort of a rule always emerges.