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Paul Erdös tells a joke
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- Duration: 1:00
- Published: 08 Oct 2009
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
my favorite one, no need to speak hungarian
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Paul Erdös - SF means Supreme Facist
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- Duration: 1:30
- Published: 26 Nov 2008
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
SF means Supreme Facist
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Paul Erdos - N is a number (Mathematics Asperger)-1.avi
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- Duration: 9:43
- Published: 28 Mar 2010
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Paul Erdős - A Brilliant Mathematician
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- Duration: 7:43
- Published: 21 Dec 2009
- Updated: 31 Aug 2012
A short film of the life of the very interesting mathematician Paul Erdős.
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The purpose of life - Paul Erdös
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- Duration: 0:34
- Published: 19 Dec 2011
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
SF = Supreme Fascist = God... Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician who published more papers than any other mathematician in history. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory.
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Math Encounters -- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers -- Paul Hoffman (Presentation)
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- Duration: 45:14
- Published: 23 Aug 2011
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Explore the relationship between genius, madness, obsession, and creativity with bestselling author, journalist, and TV personality Paul Hoffman. During this Math Encounter, Hoffman discusses the legendarily eccentric Paul Erdős, who, for more than two decades, lived out of two tattered bags, crisscrossing four continents and chasing mathematical problems in pursuit of lasting beauty and ultimate truth. Hoffman received a special introduction by Science House founder and prolific inventor (400+ patents), James Jorasch. Jorasch was recently named "Father of Invention" by Psychology Today. Math Encounters is a public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics and presented by the Simons Foundation and the Museum of Mathematics. For further information, call the Museum of Mathematics at (212) 542-0566 or e-mail mathencounters@momath.org. Video created by Peter Barton.
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Paul Erdos N is a number Mathematics Asperger 5
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- Published: 28 Mar 2010
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Paul Erdös PGOM LD AD LD CD
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- Published: 26 Nov 2008
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Paul Erdös is introducing himself
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Paul Erdos - N is a number (Mathematics Asperger)-2.avi
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- Published: 28 Mar 2010
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Paul Erdős - N is a number - The man made of maths
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- Duration: 57:51
- Published: 09 Jul 2012
- Updated: 19 Oct 2012
This guy was deeply plugged into the machinery of the universe. Long documentary, but worth it. Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál, pronounced [ˈɛrdøːʃ ˈpaːl]; 26 March 1913 -- 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. He is also known for his "legendarily eccentric" personality. "When asked what the really important things he wants to do with his life, he often says to him it is to find new results and try to prove them. Of course he has a side comment here, which is a running joke, which he calls the SF, by that he means 'god' or whoever is watching down, and he has a perverse view of the almighty, feeling that its gods job to try to make people unhappy. So, to get even, it's part of his mission is to try and annoy what he calls the SF, the supreme fascists. The Significant Few." Erdos was without a doubt one of the most prolific mathemeticians of the 20th century, and curiously a nearly daily user of methamphetamine, which he rarely publicly admitted for fear of proliferating the idea that drug use is acceptable. He was still going strong well into his later years, even though most great mathematicians loose their abilities around the age of 40 or so. His friends made a bet with him for $500 that he couldn't <b>...</b>
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N IS A NUMBER: A PORTRAIT OF PAUL ERDOS
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- Published: 21 Oct 2010
- Updated: 28 Aug 2012
Excerpt from the film N IS A NUMBER: A PORTRAIT OF PAUL ERDOS , a Facets Video release. Directed by George Paul Csicsery .Formore info or to order this film, visit www.facetsdvd.com or contact sales@facets.org. Facets Multi-Media is a non-profit media arts organization founded in Chicago in 1975, and dedicated to making cinema accessible to all through film preservation, distribution, presentation, and education. For more information, visit www.facets.org A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdos was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Erdos, who died in 1996 at the age of 83, inspired generations of mathematicians throughout the world with his insightful approach and wry humor. This whimsical documentary follows him for four years through four countries, presenting his mathematical quest and its personal and philosophical dimensions. Animated sequences illustrate the kinds of mathematical problems that Erdos pursued. Gold Apple winner at the National George Paul Csicsery.
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Paul Erdos - N is a number (Mathematics Asperger)-3.avi
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- Published: 28 Mar 2010
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Sunday Morning- Pastor Paul Erdos- 1 John 3 1. Some things God cannot do. April 13, 2008
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- Duration: 53:15
- Published: 19 Jun 2012
- Updated: 19 Jun 2012
These are actual and unedited videos recorded weekly at the Victory Bible Baptist Church in South Dakota. Our address is 5407 Cedar St. Black Hawk, SD 57718, you can contact Pastor Erdos at 605-209-8777 or myself at 570-575-5458. Victory bible Baptist Church
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High and Lifted Up by Pastor Paul Erdos
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- Published: 24 May 2012
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These are actual videos unedited from the church in Black Hawk, South Dakota; Victory Bible Baptist Church. Pastor Paul Erdos delivered the message, "High and Lifted Up". Most of these messages are at least 3 years old. ~Called Unto Christ
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Paul Erdos Math Project
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- Published: 15 Oct 2012
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Paul Erdos
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N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős (Trailer)
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- Duration: 0:33
- Published: 04 Mar 2011
- Updated: 14 Sep 2012
For complete on-demand access to this and other acclaimed documentary films, visit: fora.tv Introducing FORA.tv Films, a new service that offers on-demand access to award-winning documentary films and helps filmmakers reach passionate, engaged audiences worldwide. The new service features award-winning titles from some of the greatest names in documentary filmmaking, including California Newsreel, San Simeon Films, and Zala Films. To learn more, visit: fora.tv A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdös was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Born in Hungary in 1913, Erdös wrote and co-authored over 1500 papers and pioneered several fields in theoretical mathematics. At the age of 83 he still spent most of his time on the road, going from math meeting to math meeting, continually working on problems. He died on September 20, 1996 while attending such a meeting in Warsaw, Poland. N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös was filmed between 1988 and 1991. The film opens at Cambridge University's 1991 honorary doctorate ceremony, where Erdös received an award he says he would gladly trade for a "nice new proof." For Erdös, the meaning of life is "to prove and conjecture." In an age dominated by technical wizardry and high tech communications, Erdös was an unusual human link connecting hundreds of people. As he traveled from country to country, Erdös carried with him the latest in mathematical thinking, inspiring others to develop new ideas and, sometimes, entire new <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/N_is_a_Number_A_Portrait_of_Paul_Erdős_Trailer
Paul Erdos - N is a number (Mathematics Asperger)-4.avi
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- Duration: 9:40
- Published: 28 Mar 2010
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Encouraged To STAND by Pastor Paul Erdos
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- Duration: 31:05
- Published: 24 May 2012
- Updated: 24 May 2012
These are actual videos unedited from the church in Black Hawk, South Dakota; Victory Bible Baptist Church. Pastor Paul Erdos delivered the message, "Encouraged to Stand". Most of these messages are at least 3 years old. ~Called Unto Christ
http://wn.com/Encouraged_To_STAND_by_Pastor_Paul_Erdos
Sunday Morning. Pastor Paul Erdos. Col. 3 1-10. The affect of our affections. November 9 2008. conti
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- Duration: 25:23
- Published: 19 Jun 2012
- Updated: 19 Jun 2012
These are actual and unedited videos recorded weekly at the Victory Bible Baptist Church in South Dakota. Our address is 5407 Cedar St. Black Hawk, SD 57718, you can contact Pastor Erdos at 605-209-8777 or myself at 570-575-5458. Victory Bible Baptist Church
http://wn.com/Sunday_Morning_Pastor_Paul_Erdos_Col_3_1-10_The_affect_of_our_affections_November_9_2008_conti
Paul Erdos N is a number Mathematics Asperger 6
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- Duration: 8:21
- Published: 28 Mar 2010
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
Sunday Morning. Pastor Paul Erdos. Col. 3 1-10. The affect of our affections. November 9 2008.
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- Duration: 27:04
- Published: 19 Jun 2012
- Updated: 19 Jun 2012
These are actual and unedited videos recorded weekly at the Victory Bible Baptist Church in South Dakota. Our address is 5407 Cedar St. Black Hawk, SD 57718, you can contact Pastor Erdos at 605-209-8777 or myself at 570-575-5458. Victory Bible Baptist Church
http://wn.com/Sunday_Morning_Pastor_Paul_Erdos_Col_3_1-10_The_affect_of_our_affections_November_9_2008
Paul Erdos - Math Genius - New Function - Jason Earls - Lowbrow Experimental Math
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- Duration: 1:28
- Published: 26 Oct 2010
- Updated: 12 Jul 2012
For more on Paul Erdos and a new number theory function "invented" in his honor, see the book: The Lowbrow Experimental Mathematician by Jason Earls bit.ly You may also be interested in: Mathematical Bliss by Jason Earls bit.ly ========= Other books: That Man is a Sinner: bit.ly Underground Guitar Handbook: tinyurl.com How to Become a Guitar Player from Hell: tinyurl.com A Cringe-Meister in the Bathos-Sphere: tinyurl.com Heartless Bastard In Ecstasy: tinyurl.com Red Zen: tinyurl.com Zombies of the Red Descent: tinyurl.com I Sin Every Number: tinyurl.com Naked Lesbian Stalker: tinyurl.com Cocoon of Terror: tinyurl.com Error_Cyberpunk: tinyurl.com
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Sunday Night. Pastor Paul Erdos. Eph. 6 10. Encouraged to STAND. November 9 2008
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- Duration: 31:05
- Published: 19 Jun 2012
- Updated: 19 Jun 2012
These are actual and unedited videos recorded weekly at the Victory Bible Baptist Church in South Dakota. Our address is 5407 Cedar St. Black Hawk, SD 57718, you can contact Pastor Erdos at 605-209-8777 or myself at 570-575-5458. Victory Bible Baptist Church
http://wn.com/Sunday_Night_Pastor_Paul_Erdos_Eph_6_10_Encouraged_to_STAND_November_9_2008
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| Paul Erdős | |
|---|---|
 Paul Erdős at a student seminar in Budapest (Fall 1992) |
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| Born | (1913-03-26)26 March 1913 Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 20 September 1996(1996-09-20) (aged 83) Warsaw, Poland |
| Residence | Hungary United Kingdom United States Israel Then itinerant |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Manchester Princeton Purdue Notre Dame University of Memphis[2] Then itinerant |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Doctoral advisor | Leopold Fejér |
| Doctoral students | Bonifac Donat Joseph Kruskal Alexander Soifer |
| Known for | See list |
| Notable awards | Wolf Prize (1983/84) AMS Cole Prize (1951) |
Paul Erdős (occasionally spelled Erdos or Erdös; Hungarian: Erdős Pál, pronounced [ˈɛrdøːʃ ˈpaːl]; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history,[1] working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. He is also known for his "legendarily eccentric" personality.[2][3]
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Biography[link]
Paul Erdős was born in Budapest, Hungary on March 26, 1913.[4] He was the only surviving child of Anna and Lajos Erdős (formerly Engländer);[5] his siblings died before he was born, aged 3 and 5. His parents were both Jewish mathematicians from a vibrant intellectual community.[6] His fascination with mathematics developed early—at the age of three, he could calculate how many seconds a person had lived.[7]
Both of Erdős's parents were high school mathematics teachers, and Erdős received much of his early education from them. Erdős always remembered his parents with great affection. At 16, his father introduced him to two of his lifetime favorite subjects—infinite series and set theory. During high school, Erdős became an ardent solver of the problems proposed each month in KöMaL, the Mathematical and Physical Monthly for Secondary Schools. Erdős later published several articles in it about problems in elementary plane geometry.[8]
In 1934, at the age of 21, he was awarded a doctorate in mathematics.[9] Because anti-Semitism was increasing, he moved that same year to Manchester, England, to be a guest lecturer. In 1938, he accepted his first American position as a scholarship holder at Princeton University. At this time, he began to develop the habit of traveling from campus to campus. He would not stay long in one place and traveled back and forth among mathematical institutions until his death.
Another roof, another proof.
Paul Erdős[10]
Possessions meant little to Erdős; most of his belongings would fit in a suitcase, as dictated by his itinerant lifestyle. Awards and other earnings were generally donated to people in need and various worthy causes. He spent most of his life as a vagabond, traveling between scientific conferences and the homes of colleagues all over the world. He would typically show up at a colleague's doorstep and announce "my brain is open," staying long enough to collaborate on a few papers before moving on a few days later. In many cases, he would ask the current collaborator about whom he (Erdős) should visit next.
His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself. The German original, "Ein Mathematiker ist eine Maschine, die Kaffee in Sätze verwandelt"[11] of the sentence is a wordplay on the double meaning of "Satz": "theorem" or "residue of coffee", lost in the English translation)[12] After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[13] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use.
He had his own idiosyncratic vocabulary: he spoke of "The Book", an imaginary book in which God had written down the best and most elegant proofs for mathematical theorems. Lecturing in 1985 he said, "You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book." He himself doubted the existence of God, whom he called the "Supreme Fascist" (SF).[14] He accused the SF of hiding his socks and Hungarian passports, and of keeping the most elegant mathematical proofs to himself. When he saw a particularly beautiful mathematical proof he would exclaim, "This one's from The Book!". This later inspired a book entitled Proofs from THE BOOK.
Other idiosyncratic elements of Erdős' vocabulary include:[15]
- Children were referred to as "epsilons" (because in mathematics, particularly calculus, an arbitrarily small positive quantity is commonly denoted by that Greek letter (ε));
- Women were "bosses";
- Men were "slaves";
- People who stopped doing math had "died";
- People who physically died had "left";
- Alcoholic drinks were "poison";
- Music was "noise";
- People who had married were "captured";
- People who had divorced were "liberated";
- To give a mathematical lecture was "to preach" and
- To give an oral exam to a student was "to torture" him/her.
Also, all countries which he thought failed to provide freedom to individuals as long as they did no harm to anyone else were classified as imperialist and given a name that began with a lowercase letter. For example, the U.S. was "samland" (after Uncle Sam), the Soviet Union was "joedom" (after Joseph Stalin), and Israel was "israel". For his epitaph he suggested, "I've finally stopped getting dumber." (Hungarian: "Végre nem butulok tovább").[16]
In 1952, during the McCarthy anti-communist investigations, the U.S. government denied Erdős, a Hungarian citizen, a re-entry visa into the United States, for reasons that have never been fully explained.[17] Teaching at Notre Dame at the time, Erdős could have chosen to remain in the country. Instead, he packed up and left, albeit requesting reconsideration from the Immigration Service at periodic intervals. The government changed its mind in 1963 and Erdős resumed including American universities in his teaching and travels.
Hungary, then a Communist nation, was under the hegemony of the Soviet Union. Although it curtailed the freedom of its citizens, in 1956 it gave Erdős the singular privilege of being allowed to enter and exit Hungary as he pleased. Erdős exiled himself voluntarily from Hungary in 1973 as a principled protest against his country's policy of denying entry to Israelis.[18]
During the last decades of his life, Erdős received at least fifteen honorary doctorates. He became a member of the scientific academies of eight countries, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the UK Royal Society. Shortly before his death, he renounced his honorary degree from the University of Waterloo over what he considered to be unfair treatment of colleague Adrian Bondy.[19][20] He died "in action" of a heart attack on September 20, 1996, at the age of 83, while attending a conference in Warsaw, Poland. Erdős never married and had no children.
His life was documented in the film N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős, made while he was still alive.
Mathematical work[link]
Erdős was one of the most prolific publishers of papers in mathematical history, comparable only with Leonhard Euler; Erdős published more papers, while Euler published more pages.[1] He wrote around 1,525 mathematical articles in his lifetime,[21] mostly with co-authors. He strongly believed in and practiced mathematics as a social activity,[22] having 511 different collaborators in his lifetime.[23]
In terms of mathematical style, Erdős was much more of a "problem solver" than a "theory developer". (See "The Two Cultures of Mathematics"[24] by Timothy Gowers for an in-depth discussion of the two styles, and why problem solvers are perhaps less appreciated.) Joel Spencer states that "his place in the 20th-century mathematical pantheon is a matter of some controversy because he resolutely concentrated on particular theorems and conjectures throughout his illustrious career."[25] Erdős never won the highest mathematical prize, the Fields Medal, nor did he coauthor a paper with anyone who did,[26] a pattern that extends to other prizes.[27] He did win the Wolf Prize, where his contribution is described as "for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over".[28] In contrast, the works of the three winners after were recognized as "outstanding", "classic", and "profound", and the three before as "fundamental" or "seminal".
Of his contributions, the development of Ramsey theory and the application of the probabilistic method especially stand out. Extremal combinatorics owes to him a whole approach, derived in part from the tradition of analytic number theory. Erdős found a proof for Bertrand's postulate which proved to be far neater than Chebyshev's original one. He also discovered an elementary proof for the prime number theorem, along with Atle Selberg, which showed how combinatorics was an efficient method of counting collections. Erdős also contributed to fields in which he had little real interest, such as topology, where he is credited as the first person to give an example of a totally disconnected topological space that is not zero-dimensional.[29]
Erdős problems[link]
Throughout his career, Erdős would offer prizes for solutions to unresolved problems.[30] These ranged from $25 for problems that he felt were just out of the reach of current mathematical thinking, to several thousand dollars for problems that were both difficult to attack and mathematically significant. There are thought to be at least a thousand such outstanding prizes, though there is no official or comprehensive list. The prizes remain active despite Erdős's death; Ronald Graham is the (informal) administrator of solutions. Winners can get either a check signed by Erdős (for framing only) or a cashable check from Graham.[31]
Perhaps the most mathematically notable of these problems is the Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions:
- If the sum of the reciprocals of a sequence of integers diverges, then the sequence contains arithmetic progressions of arbitrary length.
If true, it would solve several other open problems in number theory (although one main implication of the conjecture, that the prime numbers contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions, has since been proved independently as the Green–Tao theorem.) The problem is currently worth US$5000.[32]
The most familiar problem with an Erdős prize is likely the Collatz conjecture, also called the 3N+1 problem. Erdős offered $500 for a solution.
Collaborators[link]
His most frequent collaborators include Hungarian mathematicians András Sárközy (62 papers) and András Hajnal (56 papers), and American mathematician Ralph Faudree (50 papers). Other frequent collaborators were[33]
- Béla Bollobás (18 papers)
- Stefan Burr (27 papers)
- Fan Chung (14 papers)
- Zoltán Füredi (10 papers)
- Ron Graham (28 papers)
- András Gyárfás (15 papers)
- Richard R. Hall (14 papers)
- István Joó (12 papers)
- Eric Milner (15 papers)
- Melvyn Nathanson (19 papers)
- Jean-Louis Nicolas (19 papers)
- János Pach (21 papers)
- George Piranian (14 papers)
- Carl Pomerance (23 papers)
- Richard Rado (18 papers)
- A. R. Reddy (11 papers)
- Alfréd Rényi (32 papers)
- Pal Revesz (10 papers)
- Vojtěch Rödl (11 papers)
- Satrajit Chakrabarty (10 papers)
- C. C. Rousseau (35 papers)
- Richard Schelp (42 papers)
- John Selfridge (14 papers)
- Miklós Simonovits (21 papers)
- Vera Sós (35 papers)
- Joel Spencer (23 papers)
- Ernst G. Straus (20 papers)
- Endre Szemerédi (29 papers)
- Paul Turán (30 papers)
- Zsolt Tuza (12 papers)
For other co-authors of Erdős, see the list of people with Erdős number 1 in List of people by Erdős number.
Erdős number[link]
Main article: Erdős number
Because of his prolific output, friends created the Erdős number as a humorous tribute. An Erdős number describes a person's degree of separation from Erdős himself, based on their collaboration with him, or with another who has their own Erdős number. Erdős alone was assigned the Erdős number of 0 (for being himself), while his immediate collaborators could claim an Erdős number of 1, their collaborators have Erdős number at most 2, and so on. Approximately 200,000 mathematicians have an assigned Erdős number,[34] and some have estimated that 90 percent of the world's active mathematicians have an Erdős number smaller than 8 (not surprising in light of the small world phenomenon). Due to collaborations with mathematicians, many scientists in fields such as physics, engineering, biology, and economics have Erdős numbers as well.[35]
It is said that Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron has an Erdős number of 1 because they both autographed the same baseball when Emory University awarded them honorary degrees on the same day.[36] Erdős numbers have also been assigned to an infant, a horse, and several actors.[37]
The Erdős number was most likely first defined by Casper Goffman, an analyst whose own Erdős number is 1.[38] Goffman published his observations about Erdős' prolific collaboration in a 1969 article titled "And what is your Erdős number?"[39]
See also[link]
- List of topics named after Paul Erdős – including conjectures, numbers, prizes, and theorems
Notes[link]
- ^ a b Hoffman, p. 42.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica article
- ^ Michael D. Lemonick (March 29, 1999). "Paul Erdos: The Oddball's Oddball". Time Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990598,00.html.
- ^ "Erdos biography". Gap-system.org. http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Erdos.html. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^ Baker, A.; Bollobas, B. (1999). "Paul Erdos. 26 March 1913 -- 20 September 1996: Elected For.Mem.R.S. 1989". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 45: 147. DOI:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0011. edit
- ^ The Budapest Jewish community of that day produced at least six remarkable thinkers besides Erdős: physicist and mathematician Eugene Wigner (Wigner Jenő in Hungarian), physicist Edward Teller (Teller Ede), physicist Leó Szilárd (Szilárd Leó), mathematician and polymath John von Neumann (Neumann János), physicist Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes), physicist-engineer Theodore von Kármán (Kármán Tódor), and philosopher Georg Lukács (Lukács György).
- ^ Hoffman, p. 66.
- ^ László Babai. "Paul Erdős just left town". http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/files/tr_authentic/TR-2001-11.ps.
- ^ Erdős's thesis advisor at the University of Budapest was Leopold Fejér (or Fejér Lipót), who was also the thesis advisor for John von Neumann, George Pólya and Paul (Pál) Turán.
- ^ Cited in at least 20 books.
- ^ From the German Wikipedia article on Rényi
- ^ Biography of Alfréd Rényi by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson
- ^ Hill, J. Paul Erdos, Mathematical Genius, Human (In That Order)
- ^ Schechter, Bruce (2000). My brain is open: The mathematical journeys of Paul Erdős. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0-684-85980-7.
- ^ Hoffman, chapter 1. As included with the New York Times review of the book.
- ^ Hoffman, p. 3.
- ^ "Erdos biography". School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. January 2000. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Erdos.html. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
- ^ László Babai and Joel Spencer. "Paul Erdős (1913–1996)" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society (American Mathematical Society) 45 (1). http://www.ams.org/notices/199801/comm-erdos.pdf.
- ^ Letter from Erdős to University of Waterloo
- ^ Transcription of October 2, 1996, article from University of Waterloo Gazette
- ^ Jerry Grossman. "Publications of Paul Erdös". http://www.oakland.edu/enp/pubinfo/. Retrieved 1 Feb 2011.
- ^ Charles Krauthammer (September 27, 1996). "Paul Erdos, Sweet Genius". Washington Post: p. A25. http://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/~mohar/Erdos.html. "?". http://theory.cs.uchicago.edu/erdos/wash-post2.ps.
- ^ "The Erdős Number Project Data Files". Oakland.edu. 2009-05-29. http://www.oakland.edu/enp/thedata/. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^ This essay is in Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, Edited by V. I. Arnold, Michael Atiyah, Peter D. Lax and Barry Mazur, American Mathematical Society, 2000.
- ^ Joel Spencer, "Prove and Conjecture!", a review of Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives. American Scientist, Volume 88, No. 6 November–December 2000
- ^ Paths to Erdös — The Erdös Number Project
- ^ From "trails to Erdos", by DeCastro and Grossman, in The Mathematical Intelligencer, vol. 21, no. 3 (Summer 1999), 51–63: A careful reading of Table 3 shows that although Erdos never wrote jointly with any of the 42 [Fields] medalists (a fact perhaps worthy of further contemplation)... there are many other important international awards for mathematicians. Perhaps the three most renowned...are the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, and the Leroy P. Steele Prizes. ... Again, one may wonder why KAPLANSKY is the only recipient of any of these prizes who collaborated with Paul Erdös. (After this paper was written, collaborator Lovasz received the Wolf prize, making 2 in all).
- ^ "Wolf Foundation Mathematics Prize Page". Wolffund.org.il. http://www.wolffund.org.il/cat.asp?id=23&cat_title=MATHEMATICS. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^ Melvin Henriksen. "Reminiscences of Paul Erdös (1913–1996)". Mathematical Association of America. http://www.maa.org/features/erdos.html. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- ^ Brent Wittmeier, "Math genius left unclaimed sum," Edmonton Journal, September 28, 2010.[1]
- ^ Charles Seife (5 April 2002). "Erdös's Hard-to-Win Prizes Still Draw Bounty Hunters". Science 296 (5565): 39–40. DOI:10.1126/science.296.5565.39. PMID 11935003. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci%3B296/5565/39.
- ^ p. 354, Soifer, Alexander (2008); The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of its Creators; New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-74640-1
- ^ List of collaborators of Erdős by number of joint papers, from the Erdős number project web site.
- ^ "From Benford to Erdös". Radio Lab. episode 2009-10-09. 2009-09-30. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/10/09/segments/137643.
- ^ Jerry Grossman. "Some Famous People with Finite Erdös Numbers". http://www.oakland.edu/enp/erdpaths/. Retrieved 1 Feb 2011.
- ^ Jerry Grossman. "Items of Interest Related to Erdös Numbers". http://www4.oakland.edu/enp/related/.
- ^ Extended Erdős Number Project
- ^ Michael Golomb's obituary of Paul Erdős
- ^ Goffman, Casper (1969). "And what is your Erdős number?". American Mathematical Monthly 76 (7): 791. DOI:10.2307/2317868. JSTOR 2317868.
References[link]
- Aigner, Martin; Günther Ziegler (2003). Proofs from THE BOOK. Berlin; New York: Springer. ISBN 3-540-40460-0.
- Csicsery, George Paul (2005). N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. ISBN 3-540-22469-6. - DVD
- 1993 documentary film "N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős" by George Paul Csicsery.
- Hoffman, Paul (1998). The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth. London: Fourth Estate Ltd. ISBN 1-85702-811-2.
- Kolata, Gina (1996-09-24). "Paul Erdos, 83, a Wayfarer In Math's Vanguard, Is Dead". New York Times: pp. A1 and B8. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EED7113DF937A1575AC0A960958260. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
- Bruce Schechter (1998). My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdős. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-84635-7.
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- Erdos' Scholar Google profile
- Searchable collection of (almost) all papers of Erdős
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Paul Erdős", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Erdos.html .
- Paul Erdős at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Jerry Grossman at Oakland University. The Erdös Number Project
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Royal Society Public Lecture by Paul Hoffman (video)
- Radiolab: Numbers, with a story on Paul Erdős
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Erdős, Paul |
| Alternative names | Erdos, Paul (Anglicization); Erdős Pál (Birth name) |
| Short description | Mathematician |
| Date of birth | March 26, 1913 |
| Place of birth | Budapest, Hungary |
| Date of death | September 20, 1996 |
| Place of death | Warsaw, Poland |
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This article is about the phrase. For other uses, see The Man (disambiguation).
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.[1]
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History[link]
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [2][dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch, and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.
The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."
In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.[3][4][5][6]
Use as praise[link]
The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."[7][dubious – discuss]
In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.
See also[link]
- Absentee landlord
- Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- New World Order (conspiracy theory)
- Ruling class
- The Establishment
- Power elite
- Corrections officer
- YTMND
Notes[link]
- ^ "stick it to the man". AllWords.com (English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search). http://www.allwords.com/word-stick+it+to+the+man.html.
- ^ Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 1, Page 38, Columbia University Press, 1961
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/quotes
- ^ http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/School_of_Rock
- ^ http://www.moviefanatic.com/quotes/movies/school-of-rock/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37oJqWp4rJM
- ^ Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, Simon & Schuster, 1994, p155.
References[link]
- Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). Random House Dictionary of American Slang. New York: Random House.
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