Paul Erdős: References & Edit History
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Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth (1998), winner of the Rhône-Poulenc General Prize for Science Books, is a highly accessible and entertaining biography. Bruce Schechter, My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös (1998), is another entertaining biography. Paul Erdös, The Mathematics of Paul Erdös, 2 vol. (1996), is a comprehensive survey of his work. N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös (1993), directed by George Csicsery, is an award-winning documentary of his life that also contains animations illustrating some of his mathematical work.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: Princeton University - Department of Mathematics - Paul Erd˝os and Probabilistic Reasoning (PDF). | Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 22, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Princeton University - Department of Mathematics - Paul Erd˝os and Probabilistic Reasoning (PDF). | May 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - In Our Time - Paul Erdős. | Mar 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Hawaiʻi - Paul Erdős (PDF). | Dec 30, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe - Paul Erdős. | Mar 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers. | Jan 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Simon Fraser Uniersity - Paul Erdős. | Oct 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Set Theory (PDF). | Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Purdue University - Department of Mathematics - Paul Erd�s at Purdue. | Aug 02, 2023 | ||
| Changed “Chebyshev's theorem” to “Bertrand's postulate.” | Jun 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Mathematical Society - Paul Erdo˝s (19131996) (PDF). | Jun 08, 2023 | ||
| Changed "Erdös" to "Erdős." | Jul 08, 2013 | ||
| Media added. | May 19, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Paul Erdős. |
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Nov 23, 2006 | |
| Article revised. | May 28, 2004 | ||
| New article added. | Aug 02, 2002 |
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