Paul Erdős, PhD (1913 - 1996)
"If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is." - Paul Erdős, as quoted in My Brain Is Open : The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (1998) by Bruce Schechter, p. 14.
Paul Erdős was born on March 26, 1913 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He was a mathematician, working primarily in discrete mathematics. Throughout his long career, he published nearly 1,500 mathematic papers, making him one of the most prolifically published mathematicians of all time. This has resulted in the creation of the Erdős number, which is a tracking format for other publishing mathematicians to track their output in relative comparison to Erdős. While never formally addressed himself as asexual, Erdős has been described as "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" by the New York Times and remained celibate throughout his life and held views against marriage on principle.
Read more about Paul Erdős, PhD here:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.html
https://www.math.purdue.edu/about/purview/fall96/paul-erdos.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Erdos
- Title
- Photographic Portrait of Paul Erdős
- Creator
- ZALA Films
- Date
- 1993
- Description
- A promotional still of Paul Erdős from the documentary "N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős"
- Format
- Image, PNG
- Type
- Still Image
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Rights Holder
- George Paul Csicsery
- Media
Portrait of Paul Erdős
- Title
- Autobiography by Paul Erdős
- Creator
- Paul Erdős
- Description
- A brief, handwritten autobiography from Paul Erdős.
- Format
- Physical, Paper
- extracted text
- Title
- "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" Cover, First Edition
- Creator
- Hyperion Books
- Contributor
- Marin County Free Library
- Date
- 1998
- Description
- A first-edition copy of the cover to a biography of Paul Erdős, written by Paul Hoffman.
- Format
- Image, JPG
- Type
- Still Image
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Rights Holder
- Hachette Books
- Title
- FBI Memo Regarding Paul Erdős' Ability to Guest Lecture
- Creator
- Department of Defense
- Date
- September 7, 1961
- April 10, 2014
- Description
- A scanned memo from the US Department of Defense regarding Paul Erdős and his ability to guest lecture at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania.
- Format
- Digital Scan, PDF
- extracted text
