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Wikimedia needs your help in its 21-day fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$145,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Paul Erdős From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Paul Erdos Paul Erdős Paul Erdős (also P¡l Erdős March 26 September 20 ) was an immensely prolific and famously eccentric Hungarian mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics graph theory number theory classical analysis ... set theory and probability theory Contents Biography Mathematical work Collaborations See also ... edit Biography He was born in Budapest Hungary as Erdős P¡l . (Erdős is pronounced as IPA /ɛrd¸ËÊƒ/ , similar to "Air-dersh" if you say the second syllable non-rhotically .) His parents were non-practising Jews . The Budapest Jewish community of that day produced at least five remarkable thinkers besides Erdős: Eugene Wigner , the physicist and engineer; Edward Teller , the physicist and politician; Le³ Szil¡rd , the chemist, physicist and politician; John von Neumann , the mathematician and polymath; and

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14. Paul Erdos Paul Erdos Born 26Mar-1913 Birthplace Budapest, Hungary Paul Erdos was a Hungarian born mathematician famous for his brilliantly elegant proofs of http://www.nndb.com/people/401/000032305/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Paul Erdos Born: 26-Mar-1913 Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary Died: 20-Sep-1996 Location of death: Warsaw, Poland Cause of death: Heart Failure Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Mathematician Level of fame: Niche Executive summary: Loved only numbers Paul Erdos was a Hungarian born mathematician famous for his brilliantly elegant proofs of seemingly unsolvable mathematical problems, especially in the area of numbers theory. He founded the field of discrete mathematics, the foundation of computer science, and was one of the most prolific mathematicians in history. He authored more than 1500 papers working, over the years, with roughly 458 collaborators. So highly regarded was he by other mathematicians that it became a badge of honor to have collaborated with him, an honor designated by claiming an "Erdos number" of 1. (A system begun by Casper Goffman around 1965.) To have an Erdos number of 2 meant you had collaborated with someone who had collaborated with Erdos, and so on. So thoroughly did Erdos devote himself to mathematics that he never married, acquired no property beyond a change of clothes ("Property is a nuisance."), and he refused to stay tied down to a job because it would limit his ability to focus on mathematical problems and to collaborate with distant colleagues. Instead he traveled from one place to another, living out of a half-empty suitcase, staying with fellow mathematicians and sharing ideas from one place to the next. Whatever money he acquired was soon given away, sometimes to charities but often as prizes to those who solved the difficult mathematical problems he set them. (Though many preferred to frame, rather than spend, their winnings.)

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Wikimedia needs your help in its US$200,000 fund drive. See our fundraising page for details. Paul Erdős From Wikiquote (Redirected from Paul Erdos Paul Erdős (also P¡l Erdős March 26 September 20 ) was an immensely prolific and famously eccentric mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics graph theory number theory classical analysis ... set theory and probability theory This People article is a stub . You can help Wikiquote by expanding it edit Attributed A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. This one's from the Book! Said with regard to a particularly beautiful or elegant proof, refering a mythical "book" in which God wrote the proofs for all theorems. Finally I'm becoming stupider no more. Erdos suggested this for his own epitaph. Retrieved from " http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s Categories People stubs Mathematicians Views Article Discussion Edit History Personal tools Create an account or log in Navigation Main Page Community portal Recent changes Random page ... Donations Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version ... Permanent link This page was last modified 07:31, 7 August 2005.

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Paul Erdos CASSANDRA W., Alplaus, NY Who is a hero? A hero is an ideal, the pure expression of one's aspirations. The choice of a hero is subjective and illustrates a person's individuality. When questioned about their personal idols, a disconcertingly large number of people rush to name actors, sports stars, musicians and even superheroes. What fazes me is the extent of superficiality and consequent lack of identity that envelops these devotees. With all due respect, I find it hard to accept that a majority of Americans honestly aim to become Superman. Paul Erdos never learned to tie his shoes, never drove a car or sliced his own piece of fruit. Yet he was adulated by the top intellectuals of the world and figured pre-eminently into the legends of twentieth-century mathematics. Totally incapable of the mundane essentials of living, Erdos achieved the satisfaction that so many people seek. He listened to his anima and ignored the demands of collective society. This is the sort of hero whose life goes unrecognized. His genius exceeded renowned scholars and monopolized number theory. Erdos's mathematical omniscience awed his reputable colleagues. For the 83 years of his life, however, Americans ignored this man who reached their own dreams of personal nirvana. Only this year have his accomplishments been recorded and received their due veneration. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (by Paul Hoffman), was reviewed recently by the New York Times as a biography that opens doors on a world and characters that are often invisible. A new hero has emerged for those who, like me, are sickened by the lengthy roster of hallowed athletes and rock stars.

17. Reminiscences Of Paul Erdos Article from The Mathematical Association of America by Melvin Henriksen. http://www.maa.org/features/erdos.html

Search MAA Online MAA Home Reminiscences of Paul Erdös (1913-1996) Melvin Henriksen I am not qualified to write a biography of Erdös, but some background seems necessary. There is an excellently written and accurate obituary of him by Gina Kolata in the Sept. 21, 1996 issue of the New York Times, beginning on page 1. An interview conducted in 1979 which reveals much of his personality appeared in the volume Mathematical People edited by D.J. Albers and G.L. Alexanderson (Birkhauser 1985). The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) sells two videos of Erdös, and Ronald Graham, a long time collaborator, has edited together with Jarik Nesetril two volumes on his mathematical work and life. (Both volumes have been published by Springer-Verlag and were available in January 1997. They include a detailed biographical article by Bella Bollobas.) Erdös was born in Budapest in 1913 of parents who were Jewish intellectuals. His brilliance was evident by the time he was three years old. For this reason, and perhaps because two older sisters died of scarlet fever shortly before he was born, his parents shielded him almost completely from the everyday problems of life. For example, he never had to tie his own shoelaces until he was 14 years old, and never buttered his own toast until he was 21 years old in Cambridge, England. In return for the freedom to concentrate almost exclusively on intellectual pursuits, he paid the price of not learning the social skills that are expected of all of us and usually acquired in childhood.

18. Paul Erdos, A Math Wayfarer At Field's Pinnacle, Dies At 83 New York Times obituary. http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai/ERDOS/erdos-obit.html

September 24, 1996 Paul Erdos, a Math Wayfarer At Field's Pinnacle, Dies at 83 By GINA KOLATA r. Paul Erdos, a legendary mathematician who was so devoted to his subject that he lived as a mathematical pilgrim with no home and no job, died Friday in Warsaw, Poland. He was 83. The cause of death was a heart attack, according to an E-mail message sent out this weekend by Dr. Miki Simonovits, a mathematician at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, who was a close friend. Erdos (pronounced AIR-dosh) was attending a mathematics meeting in Warsaw when he died, Simonovits reported. Never, mathematicians say, has there been an individual like Paul Erdos. He was one of the century's greatest mathematicians, who posed and solved thorny problems in number theory and other areas and founded the field of discrete mathematics, which is the foundation of computer science. He was also one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, with more than 1,500 papers to his name. And, his friends say, he was also one of the most unusual. Erdos, "is on the short list for our century," said Dr. Joel H. Spencer, a mathematician at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

19. Australian Mathematics Trust paul Erdös (or, in the original Hungarian way of writing his name Erdös Pál) died on 1 Combinatorics, paul Erdös is Eighty (eds. D. Miklós, VT Sós, http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/erdos.html

Paul Erdös (1913-1996) Paul Erdös (or, in the original Hungarian way of writing his name: Erdös Pál) died on the 20th of September 1996 in Warsaw (Poland) of a heart attack while participating at a combinatorics conference. The world has lost one of the greatest, most prolific, most original and most loveworthy mathematicians of all time. Erdös was highly original both in the mathematical and in the everyday sense. I have mentioned already a few aspects of his mathematics, but it is important to emphasize the overwhelming weight good questions had in his thinking of mathematics. Many mathematicians consider Erdös the greatest problem poser of all times. For him building a new theory - a primary ambition of many colleagues of him - was never an aim. He just asked the right questions and the theory grew out by itself like a plant. And he also had a superb ability to know which question to ask from whom, quite often simultaneously. It was not an uncommon sight to see three or four people sitting in different corners of a room, Erdös walking from one to the other, making significant progress whith each of them on problems belonging to quite different areas of mathematics at the same time. It is true (but should be interpreted correctly - see the next paragraph) that the whole life of Erdös was mathematics; he was doing it all the time. Once I was sitting with him at a concert; as soon as the concert began, Erdös pulled out a notebook from his briefcase and started solving problems. After about half an hour he turned to me and asked: "What is this noise?" But this again should be interpreted correctly: Erdös had his own vocabulary and in this vocabulary `noise' just stood for music. Actually he was very fond of music and he knew perfectly well that he was sitting at a concert, just it was normal for him to listen to the music

20. Theory At U Of C Salutes Paul Erdos Tributes, obituaries, and articles. http://theory.cs.uchicago.edu/erdos.html

In Memoriam "My mother said, `Even you, Paul, can be in only one place at one time.' Maybe soon I will be relieved of this disadvantage. Maybe, once I've left, I'll be able to be in many places at the same time. Maybe then I'll be able to collaborate with Archimedes and Euclid." Some links... at Eötvös University, Budapest (includes several photos and articles from Hungarian newspapers) Another from the Mathematical Institute , Hungarian Academy of Sciences home page includes a wealth of information and pointers. Tommy R. Jensen and Bjarne Toft's web page History of Mathematics Archive Obituaries... San Jose Mercury News, AP (unavailable) New York Times (Requires registration; service is free.) Washington Post, AP and follow-up article. (unavailable) The Times of London (Requires registration; service is free.) The Economist had an obituary in its October 5, 1996 issue. (Not available on-line) Other reading , an abridged version of the article by appearing in , 1993. (PostScript, 226 K) Jerry Grossman's Paul Erdös, the master of collaboration

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