1. Paul Erdös (1913-96) The Most Prolific Mathematician Ever!
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Paul Erdös ( ) 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
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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
Erdös’s 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.
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3. Erdös Number Source http://www.oakland.edu/enp/
Erdös number person
Erdös number people
Erdös number people
Erdös number people
(includes David Mutchler)
David Mutchler : Sushil Jajodia : Yechezkel Zalcstein : Erdös
Erdös number people
(includes Salman Azhar)
S. Azhar : John Reif : Ramamohan Paturi : Endre Szemerédi : Erdös
Erdös number people
(includes Steve Chenoweth)
S. V. Chenoweth : Francis Murray : Kenneth Miller : Harold Shapiro Erdös
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4. Sources
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/ history/Mathematicians/Erdos.html
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