N is for number paul erdos biography
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Erdös, Paul (Pál)
(b. Budapest, Hungary, 26 March 1923;
d.
N is for number paul erdos biography
Warsaw, Poland, 20 September 1996), mathematics, number theory.
Erdös was a Hungarian mathematician who spent much of his life traveling and working with colleagues around the world on mathematical problems of many kinds.
He published some 1500 papers, making him the most prolific major mathematician of the twentieth century, and had more than 450 collaborators and coauthors. His work falls into a number of fields, some of which he created, but which can mostly be embraced under the general heading of discrete mathematics, one of the major developments of twentieth-century mathematics.
It also exerted a major influence on computer science, a field in which Erdös himself never worked.
Early Life . Erdös’s parents, Anna and Lajos Erdös, were both mathematics teachers, and he was brought up by his very protective mother, who was ever mindful of the fact that she had lost two daughters to scarlet fever just before P