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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Erdős has received more than 2,797,572 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Paul Erdős is the 86th most popular mathematician (up from 93rd in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 57th 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 86 out of 823. Before him are Ctesibius, Friedrich Bessel, Pappus of Alexandria, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Felix Klein, and Bonaventura Cavalieri. After him are Adrien-Marie Legendre, Alexander Friedmann, Anthemius of Tralles, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Émilie du Châtelet, and Stefan Banach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Paul Erdős ranks 22. Before him are Ramón Mercader, Gustáv Husák, Benjamin Britten, Sabiha Gökçen, Makarios III, and Lon Nol. After him are Albert Ellis, Bảo Đại, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Kenzō Tange, Roger Garaudy, and Jimmy Hoffa. Among people deceased in 1996, Paul Erdős ranks 15. Before him are Marguerite Duras, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Brodsky, Babrak Karmal, and René Lacoste. After him are Frank Whittle, Tadeusz Reichstein, Adolf Galland, Joan Clarke, Gene Kelly, and Solomon Asch.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Paul Erdős ranks 48 out of 866. Before him are Imre Lakatos (1922), Stephen V of Hungary (1239), Béla III of Hungary (1148), Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503), Lajos Kossuth (1802), and Coloman, King of Hungary (1070). After him are Leo Szilard (1898), Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Emeric Thököly (1657), Flórián Albert (1941), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), and Karl Mannheim (1893).

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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), Peter Lax (1926), Paul Halmos (1916), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Dénes Kőnig (1884), and Pál Turán (1910).

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