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Paul Erdős

1913 - 1996

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Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál, pronounced [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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Erdős has received more than 3,121,078 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Paul Erdős is the 89th most popular mathematician (down from 86th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 48th 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 89 out of 1,004. Before him are Stefan Banach, Felix Klein, Ctesibius, Alexander Friedmann, Stanislaw Ulam, and Katherine Johnson. After him are Lars Ahlfors, Adrien-Marie Legendre, G. H. Hardy, Siméon Denis Poisson, Leopold Kronecker, and Gabriel Cramer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Paul Erdős ranks 26. Before him are Sabiha Gökçen, Benjamin Britten, Kenzō Tange, Lon Nol, Roger Garaudy, and Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona. After him are Silvio Piola, Bảo Đại, Carmen Amaya, Stanford Moore, Trevor Howard, and Frances Farmer. Among people deceased in 1996, Paul Erdős ranks 16. Before him are Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Joseph Brodsky, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Whittle, Tadeusz Reichstein, and René Lacoste. After him are Lars Ahlfors, Silvio Piola, Babrak Karmal, Gene Kelly, Adolf Galland, and Sergiu Celibidache.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Paul Erdős ranks 56 out of 1,077. Before him are Béla III of Hungary (1148), Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Joseph Pulitzer (1847), Emeric Thököly (1657), Stephen V of Hungary (1239), and Emeric, King of Hungary (1174). After him are Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503), George de Hevesy (1885), John Sigismund Zápolya (1540), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), and László Moholy-Nagy (1895).

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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 George Pólya (1887), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Raoul Bott (1923), Peter Lax (1926), Pál Turán (1910), and Klára Dán von Neumann (1911).

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