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Paul Erdős facts for kids
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| Born | March 26, 1913 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | September 20, 1996 Warsaw, Poland |
| Residence | Hungary United Kingdom United States Israel, then itinerant |
| Nationality |  Hungarian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton Purdue Notre Dame Then itinerant |
| Alma mater | University of Pázmány Péter |
| Doctoral advisor | Leopold Fejér |
| Doctoral students | Bonifac Donat Joseph Kruskal Alexander Soifer |
| Known for | Combinatorics Graph theory Number theory |
| Notable awards | Wolf Prize (1983/84) AMS Cole Prize (1951) |
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Notes
Note that he has an Erdős number of zero. |
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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.
Erdős number
Because he wrote so many articles, 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.
Images for kids
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Counter-clockwise from left: Erdős, Fan Chung, and her husband Ronald Graham, Japan 1986
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Paul Erdős influenced many young mathematicians. In this 1985 photo taken at the University of Adelaide, Erdős explains a problem to Terence Tao — who was 10 years old at the time. Tao received the Fields Medal in 2006, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.