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Paul Erdős

1913 - 1996

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Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál [ˈɛrdøːʃ ˈpaːl]; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. Erdős pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Much of his work centered on discrete mathematics, cracking many previously unsolved problems in the field. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Erdős is the 99th most popular mathematician (down from 89th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 56th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

Paul Erdős is most famous for his contributions to mathematics. He published more papers than any other mathematician in history, and was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Erdős ranks 99 out of 1,004. Before him are Leopold Kronecker, Frank P. Ramsey, Joan Clarke, L. E. J. Brouwer, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. After him are John Wallis, Claude Shannon, Felix Klein, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Adrien-Marie Legendre, and Augustus De Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Paul Erdős ranks 27. Before him are Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Stanford Moore, Benjamin Britten, Sabiha Gökçen, Bill Hewlett, and Silvio Piola. After him are Roger Garaudy, Kenzō Tange, Lon Nol, Carmen Amaya, Albert Ellis, and William Tolbert. Among people deceased in 1996, Paul Erdős ranks 23. Before him are Gene Kelly, Joseph Brodsky, Babrak Karmal, Joan Clarke, Tiny Tim, and Silvio Piola. After him are René Lacoste, Sergiu Celibidache, Adolf Galland, Odysseas Elytis, Magda Schneider, and William Vickrey.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Paul Erdős ranks 64 out of 1,077. Before him are Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Stephen V of Hungary (1239), George Andrew Olah (1927), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), Imre Lakatos (1922), and Flórián Albert (1941). After him are Béla Guttmann (1899), Georg von Békésy (1899), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), Arthur Koestler (1905), Marcel Breuer (1902), and Emeric Thököly (1657).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Paul Erdős ranks 2. Before him are John von Neumann (1903). After him are John G. Kemeny (1926), George Pólya (1887), Peter Lax (1926), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Paul Halmos (1916), and Endre Szemerédi (1940).

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