Paul Erdős
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Born | March 26, 1913 Budapest, Hungary |
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Died | September 20, 1996 Warsaw, Poland |
Residence | Hungary United Kingdom United States Israel, then itinerant |
Nationality | ![]() |
Field | Mathematics |
Institutions | Princeton Purdue Notre Dame Then itinerant |
Alma mater | University of Pázmány Péter |
Academic advisor | Leopold Fejér |
Notable students | Bonifac Donat Joseph Kruskal Alexander Soifer |
Known for | Combinatorics Graph theory Number theory |
Notable prizes | Wolf Prize (1983/84) AMS Cole Prize (1951) |
Note that he has an Erdős number of zero. |
Paul Erdős, also Pál Erdős, in English Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös (March 26, 1913 – September 20, 1996), was a famous Hungarian-born mathematician. He worked with hundreds of mathematicians on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory.
[change] Erdős number
Because he was so prolific, friends created Erdős number. Erdős has a number of 0 (for being himself), and his direct collaborators were given the number 1. Their collaborators were given a number of 2, an so on.
The Erdős number was most likely first defined by Casper Goffman, a mathematician whose Erdős number is 1.
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