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Title: Paul Erd


1
Paul Erdös (1913-96)The Most Prolific
Mathematician Ever!
  • Born Budapest, Hungary
  • Died Warsaw, Poland
  • Mathematics was his life
  • Number theory, combinatorics, discrete
    mathematics
  • these form the foundation of computing
  • Everything else was an encumbrance to his
    mathematical pursuits
  • property, money, clothes, intimacy, social
    pleasantries
  • lived out of a suitcase

2
A True Genius Erdös Number
  • Erdös traveled the world
  • living out of a suitcase
  • to pose and solve problems
  • welcomed at any university or research center
  • the host's responsibility to lodge, feed, do
    income taxes
  • Erdös wrote may be over a thousand research
    papers
  • His Erdös number is 0
  • Erdöss co-authors have Erdös number 1
  • People who have written a joint paper with
    someone with Erdös number 1 have Erdös number 2,
    and so on.

3
Erdös NumberSource http//www.oakland.edu/enp/
  • Erdös number 0 --- 1 person
  • Erdös number 1 --- 504 people
  • Erdös number 2 --- 6593 people
  • Erdös number 3 --- 33605 people
  • (includes David Mutchler)
  • David Mutchler Sushil Jajodia Yechezkel
    Zalcstein Erdös
  • Erdös number 4 --- 83642 people
  • (includes Salman Azhar)
  • S. Azhar John Reif Ramamohan Paturi Endre
    Szemerédi Erdös
  • Erdös number 5 --- 87760 people
  • (includes Steve Chenoweth)
  • S. V. Chenoweth Francis Murray Kenneth Miller
    Harold Shapiro Erdös

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Sources
  • www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/ history/Mathematicia
    ns/Erdos.html
  • www.oakland.edu/grossman/erdoshp.html
  • www.oakland.edu/enp/
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