Paul Erdős

mathematician Paul Erdős was born on twenty-sixth of March, nineteen hundred and thirteen in Budapest, Hungary Asia. His life could be summed up as the embodiment of the values of ideas and mathematical discovery.

Erdős’s first steps in the world of mathematics were in the frame of the Eötvös Loránd University and he proved to be one of the most outstanding students. Young’s early work could have been used to set the pace to the rest of his productive years in mathematics.

Erdős developed an influential work in number theory, combinatorics, graph theory, set theory as well as probability theory. This name came from the fact that he authored 1,500 plus papers, and he only seemed to love numbers.

Erdos single handedly changed the face of mathematics through his promotion of cooperation. The travelling nature of Bill’s job made it possible for him to collaborate with mathematicians from all over the world to provide formation on problem solving.

The spheres of collaboration that he engaged in also gave rise to the concept of “Erdős numbers” which became quite famous in the societal realms of math. He used to set up mathematical problems and one could get some amount of money after solving the problem.

These are among the areas that Erdős devoted most of of his efforts on and these include, the theory of Ramsey numbers and study of primes among others and identification of what we now refer to as Erdős primes. He was awarded with numerous honours, including the Wolf prize and the Kyoto Prize; he was member of the royal society of London and of the Hungarian academy of sciences.

In his everyday life Erdős was rather frugal, he did not care for wealth and did not own a house.

However, even till his death on the 20th of September, 1996 in Warsaw, Poland, Erdős was a mathematician to the end. His stellar contributions toward the achievement of mathematics as well as the notion of Erdős numbers still fosters cooperation as well as the quest of new understandings among mathematicians.