Paul Erdős

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Mathematician
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Cole_Prize_in_Mathematics
gptkb:Leroy_P._Steele_Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
gptkbp:born March 26, 1913
gptkbp:collaborated_with gptkb:László_Lovász
gptkb:Andrzej_Schinzel
gptkb:Ronald_Graham
gptkb:Terence_Tao
gptkbp:died September 20, 1996
gptkbp:erdős_number gptkb:0
1 (for his direct collaborators)
gptkbp:erdős–_ginzburg–_ziv_theorem gptkb:Yes
gptkbp:erdős–_ko–_rado_theorem gptkb:Yes
gptkbp:erdős–_moser_problem gptkb:Yes
gptkbp:erdős–_rényi_model gptkb:Yes
gptkbp:erdős–_szekeres_theorem gptkb:Yes
gptkbp:famous_quote " There is a great difference between a mathematician and a mathematician who is a poet."
" I never met a mathematician who was not a poet."
" My brain is open."
" The book is a collection of theorems and proofs, but it is also a collection of stories."
" A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
gptkbp:field gptkb:Mathematics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Paul Erdős
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:Combinatorics
Number theory
Graph theory
gptkbp:nationality Hungarian
gptkbp:published over 1500 papers
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3