goldendragon1971

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Even looks a little like my father.......Paul Chamberlain.........I read most or all of the Man who only Loved Numbers.......the book said he was such a social recluse.........that someone had the sign his checks for him...........he would wake up and immediately grap pen and paper...........and start writing........................"let x equal............"..........that is worse than even me........which is saying something...........................the dude said, who signed his checks, that the bank would probably not even authorize a check signed by the real Paul Erdos............b/c the other guy had been signing his checks for so long............all he did was write math stuff.........................

Paul Erdős - Wikipedia

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Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century. He was known both for his social practice of mathematics and for his eccentric lifestyle (Time magazine called him The Oddball's Oddball). He devoted his waking hours to mathematics, even into his later ...

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Paul Erdős | Hungarian mathematician | Britannica.com

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Paul Erdős, (born March 26, 1913, Budapest, Hungary—died September 20, 1996, Warsaw, Poland), Hungarian “freelance” mathematician (known for his work in number theory and combinatorics) and legendary eccentric who was arguably the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, in terms of both the number of ...

Paul Erdős - Wikiquote

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His motto, as he roamed about the world, as the guest of other mathematicians, as quoted in A Tribute to Paul Erdős (1990) edited by Alan Baker, Béla .... Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, although an atheist, spoke of an imaginary book, in which God has written down all the most beautiful mathematical proofs.

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

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It was dinnertime in Greenbrook, New Jersey, on a cold spring day in 1987, and Paul Erdös, then seventy-four, had lost four mathematical colleagues, who were sitting fifty feet in front of him, ..... His college thesis adviser, Leopold Fejer, one of the strongest mathematicians in Hungary, was burned out by the age of thirty.