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Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eve...

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When he said someone had "died", Erdős meant that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he ...

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I am not qualified to say whether or not God exists. I kind of doubt He does. Nevertheless I'm alway...

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Paul Erdős

Mathematician

Born: 1913-03-26

Died: 1996-09-20

Paul Erdős [also Erdős Pál, Pál Erdős, Erdos or Erdös] (26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was an immensely prolific and famously eccentric mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory and probability theory.More