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Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. Erdős pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Much of his work centered on discrete mathematics, cracking many previously u…
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science · Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996) · mathematician · university teacher · also Paul Erdős, Paul Erdos, Erdős Pál, Erdős, Erdos, P. Erdős
Born 26 March 1913 · Died 20 September 1996 · Q173746
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2026· 4 entries
Ars Technica: Topic: Paul Erdos
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2025· 1 entry
British arachnologists Danniella Sherwood and R
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2022· 1 entry
Harvard Business Review: 3 Lessons in Collaboration and Networking from Paul Erdos
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2021· 1 entry
The minor planet (asteroid) 405571 (temporarily designated 2005 QE87) was formally named "Erdőspál" to commemorate Erdős, with the citation describing him as "a Hungarian mathematician, much of whose work centered around
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2016· 1 entry
The Boston Globe: Six degrees of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos?
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1996· 3 entries
Died 1996-09-20.
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“Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.”
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“I think that, as Shelah, a very clever young Israeli mathematician, once said, "I am an opportunist. I do what I can do." If there is anything in number theory that I can do, I certainly do it. But you see some of the problems in number theory are enormously difficult and many of these classic problems are very, very hard to make any progress in.”
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Haifa University (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague (1992).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Limoges (1986).
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1985· 2 entries
Said, "You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book
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Visited two universities in Adelaide, South Australia, Flinders University and the University of Adelaide
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1983).
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1973· 1 entry
The 60-year-old Erdős voluntarily left Hungary
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1971· 1 entry
Started taking antidepressants and amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking them for a month
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1963· 1 entry
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service granted Erdős a visa, and he resumed teaching at and traveling to American institutions
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Kossuth Prize (1958).
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1956· 1 entry
It gave Erdős the exclusive privilege of being allowed to enter and exit the country as he pleased
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1954· 1 entry
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service denied Erdős, a Hungarian citizen, a re-entry visa into the United States
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Cole Prize in Number Theory (1951).
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1945).
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1943· 1 entry
Erdős began a part-time appointment at Purdue University
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1941· 1 entry
Erdős and two others would be arrested by authorities for looking around a secret radio tower, with Erdős reportedly telling police that rather than noticing the signs against trespassing, "I was thinking about mathemati
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1938· 1 entry
Accepted his first American position as a scholarship holder at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, for the next ten years
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1934· 3 entries
Studied at Eötvös Loránd University, Doctor of Philosophy (1930–1934).
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At the age of 21, he was awarded a doctorate in mathematics
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Erdős took up a post-doctoral fellowship at Victoria University of Manchester in Manchester, England, where he met G
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1930· 1 entry
Studied at Saint Stephen High School (1926–1930).
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-03-26.
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