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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd UniversityStephen I of Hungary High School
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Limoges
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Lipót Fejér
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Géza Fodor📖 Béla Bollobás📖 Joseph Kruskal📖 Alexander Soifer📖 George B. Purdy
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"Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fa…"
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Timeline
1913
Born
Birth1996
Died
Death
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