Paul Erdős, also Pál Erdős, in English Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös (March 26, 1913 - September 20, 1996), was an immensely prolific (and famously eccentric) Hungarian-born mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory.
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Erdos' whole life was so improbable no novelist could have invented him (though he was chronicled beautifully by Paul Hoffman in the November 1987 Atlantic Monthly). www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai/ERDOS/erdos_washington_pos...
