21. Erdos paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematician of the century died on the 20th of September, 1996. http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Erdos.html

Born: 26 March 1913 in Budapest, Hungary Died: 20 Sept 1996 in Warsaw, Poland Click the picture above to see nine larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Paul was not much over a year old when World War I broke out. Paul's father Lajos was captured by the Russian army as it attacked the Austro-Hungarian troops. He spent six years in captivity in Siberia. As soon as Lajos was captured, with Paul's mother Anna teaching during the day, a German governess was employed to look after Paul. Anna, excessively protective after the loss of her two daughters, kept Paul away from school for much of his early years and a tutor was provided to teach him at home. The year 1920 was not all bad for Paul, for his father Lajos returned home from Siberia. He had learnt English to pass the long hours in captivity but, having no English teacher, did not know how to pronounce the words. He now set about teaching Paul to speak English, but the strange English accent which this gave Paul remained one of his characteristics throughout his life. Hardy in Cambridge in 1934 and Ulam , also in Cambridge, in 1935. His friendship with

22. References For Erdos Fyz. Astronom. 34 (1) (1989), 2735. G Kolata, paul erdos, a Math Wayfarerat Field's Pinnacle, Dies at 83, New York Times 24 Sept, 1996. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Erdos.html

Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books: (Cambridge, 1990). P Hoffman, The man who loved only numbers (London, 1998). Articles: D J Albers and G L Alexanderson (eds.), Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews (Boston, 1985), 81-92. Bolyai Soc. Math. Stud. Discrete Math. Period. Math. Hungar. J. Graph Theory J. Graph Theory Gaz. Math. Pokroky Mat. Fyz. Astronom. G Kolata, Paul Erdos, a Math Wayfarer at Field's Pinnacle, Dies at 83, New York Times 24 Sept, 1996. Science Combinatorica Obituary in The Times London, 25 Sept, 1996. Combinatorica Combinatorica Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz. Main index Birthplace Maps Biographies Index History Topics ... Anniversaries for the year JOC/EFR January 2000 School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland The URL of this page is: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/References/Erdos.html

23. Erdos Number Project Home Page List of people with Erdös number at most 2.Category Science Math History People Erdös, paul...... To find out who paul Erdös is, look at this biography at the MacTutor History ofMathematics Archive, or choose the “Information about paul Erdös” link http://www.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdoshp.html

This site is maintained by Jerry Grossman at Oakland University , with the collaboration of Patrick Ion ion@ams.org ) at Mathematical Reviews and Rodrigo De Castro rdcastro@matematicas.unal.edu.co ) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota . Please address all comments, additions, and corrections to Jerry at grossman@oakland.edu have been a part of the folklore of mathematicians is, look at this biography SPECIAL NOTE: The data shown on this site are based primarily on all items appearing in Mathematical Reviews through the end of 2001 . The next update will occur around January of 2004. addenda file let us know : General overview, including our (admittedly arbitrary) rules for what counts as a research collaboration. The Data We are continuously adding new information : It may be smaller than you think. Research on Collaboration : Information about and links to books, films, articles, memorials, reminiscences. : They continue to appear more than six years after his death. Related Concepts : Six degrees of separation, the Kevin Bacon game, Small Worlds, academic genealogy, Hank Aaron, graph theory. You are visitor number since we started keeping track on July 3, 1996, using

24. Paul Erdos Information There is also the paul Erdös who was a longtime market research executive York Times,he and Arthur Morgan founded the market research firm erdos Morgan in http://www.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdosdeath.html

let us know . In particular, (or anything else you feel would be appropriate) and want your thoughts to be available on the Web, please send us Items and links of general interest The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive has a biography Time Magazine has a in its "most famous scientists and thinkers of the century" feature was the mathematician who got top billing.) Paul Hoffman has set up an entire site his book (see below). The Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago has an excellent page New Scientist has a page with some information and a few links. Science Magazine has a short article There is a page devoted to Paul set up by the mathematics department at , and more information from the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (both in Budapest). Thane Plambeck has developed a Web site with some There is a page devoted to Paul set up by the mathematics department at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Here is a page of links Paul Nevai has a page Tommy R. Jensen and Bjarne Toft A conference Tim Gowers (Cambridge) gave a talk for a general audience on Arithmetic Progressions in Sparse Sets at the University of Memphis. This was followed on March 27 by a one-day conference on Combinatorics featuring talks by

25. Erdos, Paul (1913-1996) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biography erdos, paul (19131996), References. Schechter, B. My Brain is Open The MathematicalJourneys of paul erdos. New York Simon and Schuster, 1998. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Erdos.html

Branch of Science Mathematicians Nationality Hungarian ... Cole Prize Erdos, Paul (1913-1996) References Chung, F. and Graham, R. Erdos on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved Problems. New York: A. K. Peters, 1998. Hoffman, P. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers. New York: Hyperion, 1998. Schechter, B. My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. Author: Eric W. Weisstein

26. Erdős Pál (1913-1996) Tribute includes a collection of photos.Category Science Math History People Erdös, paul...... paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematician of the century died on the 20th ofSeptember, 1996. paul Erdõs and his Mathematics, Hungary, July 411, 1999 http://www.cs.elte.hu/erdos/

CONFERENCE , Hungary, July 4-11, 1999 Erdos Number Project Home Page Theory at U of Chicago salutes Paul Erdos Math Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences Here are some articles from some well-known international newspapers about him: The New York Times Unauthorized copy The TIMES Unauthorized copy And here are some articles from Hungarian newspapers: Unauthorized copy Unauthorized copy

27. Pál Erdõs A profile of Pal erdos (or paul erdos) with photo. http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~spkraus1/catalyst/math/erdos.shtml

[ c a t a l y s t ] : A page in Hungary : An obituary in "The Daily Telegraph" Erdos : A biography The Erdos Number Project math home contents ... Steve Krause

28. The New York Times About Paul Erdõs paul erdos, a Math Wayfarer at Field's Pinnacle, Dies at 83. By GINA KOLATA. Never,mathematicians say, has there been an individual like paul erdos. http://www.cs.elte.hu/erdos/NY-Times.html

The New York Times September 24, 1996 Paul Erdos, a Math Wayfarer at Field's Pinnacle, Dies at 83 By GINA KOLATA Dr. 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.

29. Erdos, Paul. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. Erdös, paul. ( r´dös)(KEY) , 1913–96, Hungarian mathematician, b. Budapest. http://www.bartleby.com/65/er/Erdos.html

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30. Encyclopædia Britannica Year in Review 1997 obituary erdos, paul Encyclopædia Britannica Article. MLAstyle erdos, paul. 2003 Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=123404

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32. PAUL ERDÕS He was born on March 26, 1913. paul erdos was regarded by fellow mathematiciansas the most brilliant, if eccentric, mind in his field. http://www.math-inst.hu/staff/erdos/c1.html

The TIMES September 25, 1996 Paul Erdos was regarded by fellow mathematicians as the most brilliant, if eccentric, mind in his field. Because he had no interest in anything but numbers, his name was not well known outside the mathematical fraternity. He wrote no best-selling books, and showed a stoic disregard for worldly success and personal comfort, living out of a suitcase for much of his adult life. The money he made from prizes he gave away to fellow mathematicians whom he considered to be needier than himself. "Property is a nuisance," was his succinct evaluation. Mathematics was his life and his only interest from earliest childhood onwards. He became the most prolific mathematician of his generation, writing or co-authoring 1,000 papers and still publishing one a week in his seventies. His research spanned many areas, but it was in number theory that he was considered a genius. He set problems that were often easy to state, but extremely tricky to solve and which involved the relationships between numbers. He liked to say that if one could think of a problem in mathematics that was unsolved and more than 100 years old, it was probably a problem in number theory. In spite, or perhaps because of, his eccentricities, mathematicians revered him and found him inspiring to work with. He was regarded as the wit of the mathematical world, the one man capable of coming up with a short, clever solution to a problem on which others had laboured through pages of equations. He collaborated with so many mathematicians that the phenomenon of the "Erdos number" evolved. To have an Erdos number 1, a mathematician must have published a paper with Erdos. To have a number of 2, he or she must have published with someone who had published with Erdos, and so on. Four and a half thousand mathematicians have an Erdos number of 2.

33. Paul Nevai's ERDOS Page (= Http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai/ERDOS/) paul Nevai nevai@math.ohiostate.edu Department of Mathematics www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevaiThe Ohio State University www.math.ohio-state.edu/~jat 231 West http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai/ERDOS/

Last Modified: Tuesday, 14-Jan-1997 17:31:37 EST Accessed: times since the count started MY HOME ERDOS MY MATH MATH ... JAT - e-mail to nevai@math.ohio-state.edu gif jpeg file] - borrowed from his MacTutor locally ] article Remembering - by (TeX file) , a Math Wayfarer At Field's Pinnacle, Dies at 83 - from the New York Times - from the Washington Post MAA 's deat at 83 A Life of Mathematics: (1913-1996) - by as published in the December, 1996, issue of MAA 's FOCUS , 1913-03-26 to 1996-09-20 - by Richard K. Guy as delivered on January 10, 1997, at the San Diego Meeting of the AMS , 1913-1996 - by Vladik Kreinovich as published in volume 2, number 4, 1996, p. 383-386, of Reliable Computing TOC Jerry Grossman 's Project Bjarne Toft 's page Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Department of Mathematics www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai The Ohio State University www.math.ohio-state.edu/~jat 231 West Eighteenth Avenue 1-614-292-5310 (Office/Answering Device) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, USA 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)

34. 2003 Paul Erdos Lecture Series paul Erdös Lecture Series. March 2122, 2003. Annually the department honors itspast relationship with Erdös by holding the paul Erdös Lecture Series. http://troy.msci.memphis.edu/erdos/

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at The University of Memphis presents the Sixth Annual Lecture in the March 21-22, 2003 University of Memphis Department of Mathematical Sciences Memphis, TN 38152 Accommodations Directions Conference Speakers 2003 Memorial Lecture Registration 2003 Memorial Lecture Friday, March 21, 2003 Cecil C. Humphreys Building, Room 248 Professor J. H. Conway Princeton University "The Power of Mathematics" Scheduled Speakers Friday, March 21, 1:00 - 3:30pm Saturday, March 22, 9:30 - 4:00pm Winfield Dunn Hall, Room 351 A Secret Recipe of Hungarian Gastronomy Steven Kalikow (University of Memphis) Greedy is not so Bad Y. Kohayakawa (University of Sao Paulo) Measures of pseudorandomness for finite sequences: minimum and typical values Anthony Quas (University of Memphis) Entropy and Convex shapes Oliver Riordan (University of Cambridge) Scale-free random graphs Alan Stacey (University of Cambridge) Andrew Thomason (University of Cambridge) Minors in graphs of large average degree Accommodations Directions Conference Speakers 2003 Memorial Lecture Registration

35. Sci.math FAQ: Erdos Number Why people care about it? Nobody seems to have a reasonable answer Who is paul erdos? paul erdos is an Hungarian mathematician. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sci-math-faq/erdos/

sci.math FAQ: Erdos Number Newsgroups: sci.math sci.answers news.answers From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) Subject: sci.math DI76Mx.F32@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Followup-To: sci.math alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca Tue Apr 04 17:26:57 EDT 1995 By Archive-name By Author By Category By Newsgroup ... Help Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Last Update March 05 2003 @ 01:20 AM

36. INFORMS Online Bookstore INFORMS Online Bookstore paul erdos. paul erdos was an amazing mathemetician whodied in 1996. Mathematics of paul erdos II, Ronald L. Graham, Second volume. http://www.informs.org/Bookstore/erdos.html

Go to INFORMS Page ... INFORMS Home What's New Info for Members Info for Nonmembers Conferences Continuing Education Education/Students Employment Prizes Publications Subdivisions Searchable Databases Links About this Web Site INFORMS Online Bookstore Discussion Search INFORMS Online Bookstore Interfaces Area Lanchester Prize Winners ... Member Suggestions Specialized Areas Interior Point Methods Decision Analysis Network Flows Stochastic Programming ... Discussion (New Format) INFORMS Online Bookstore: Paul Erdos Paul Erdos was an amazing mathemetician who died in 1996. Without a home, Erdos would travel around the world, announcing to those around him "My brain is open". His open problems, many with a value on them, set the research agendas for countless researchers, and anyone lucky enough (or good enough) to solve one of his problems would invariably frame the resulting check and display it in the office. He had exquisite taste for what made for an interesting problem: hard enough to be worth the effort but doable with the tools available (or with tools that could be created from what was known). While I do not think I would like to have been Paul Erdos, I am certainly very glad to have met him and to have spent many hours in a fruitless effort to solve a few of his problems. His recent death and his amazing and strange life has led to both popular and technical books. I prefered "My Brain is Open" but also enjoyed "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" (I found them sufficiently different to enjoy both of them). The other books are aimed at specialists, though reachable by advanced undergraduates.

37. Graph Theory White Pages Pal Erdos Budapest Some Biographies András Hajnal and Vera T. Sós, paul Erdosis seventy, J. Graph Theory 7 (1983) 391393; Harary.F, In http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sanders/graphtheory/people/Erdos.P.html

38. Paul Erdos, An Eccentric Titan Of Mathematical Theory, Dies September 24, 1996. paul erdos, a Math Wayfarer at Field's Pinnacle, Dies at 83.By GINA KOLATA. paul erdos, an Eccentric Titan Of Mathematical Theory, Dies. http://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/~mohar/Erdos.html

Some links to internet pages with additional information on Paul Erdos: http://www.math-inst.hu/staff/erdos.html http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/groups/theory/erdos.html http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Erdos.html http://www.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdoshp.html September 24, 1996 Paul Erdos, a Math Wayfarer at Field's Pinnacle, Dies at 83 By GINA KOLATA 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.

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40. Photos Of Paul Erdos Photos of paul erdos (19131996). Japan, 1986. First Japan InternationalConference on Graph Theory and Applications. Prof. erdos http://www.math.sc.edu/~griggs/erdos.html

Photos of Paul Erdos (19131996) Japan, 1986. First Japan International Conference on Graph Theory and Applications. Prof. Erdos with Ron Graham, Peter Frankl, Jin Akiyama, and woman in kimono in background. (Photo given out at conference.) With admiring(?) epsilon, and many shoes, Hakone, Japan, 1986. Famous mathematician in background. My only photo together with Prof. Erdos. Working hard on a problem at the International Conference on Algebraic Graph Theory in Leibnitz, Austria, 1989. Courtesy of V. C. Ceccherini. My last photo of "Pali-bacsi" (Uncle Paul), taken in July, 1996, near Balatonlelle, Hungary. It was during the banquet of the International Colloquium on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, held on a hill overlooking Lake Balaton, visible in the background. The day's last rays of sunshine highlight Prof. Erdos, as he so often was, deep in thought.

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