Paul Erdős

The native form o this personal name is Erdős Pál. This airticle uises the Wastren name order.

Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős at a student seminar in Budapest (Fall 1992)
Born	26 Mairch 1913(1913-03-26) Budapest, Austrick-Hungary
Dee'd	20 September 1996(1996-09-20) (aged 83) Warsaw, Poland
Residence	Hungary Unitit Kinrick Israel Unitit States
Naitionality	Hungarian
Alma mater	Eötvös Loránd Varsity
Kent for	a verra lairge nummer o results an conjecturs (mair nor 1,500 airticles) an a verra lairge nummer o coauthors (mair nor 500)
Awairds	Wolf Prize (1983/84) AMS Cole Prize (1951)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Victoria Varsity o Manchester Princeton Varsity Purdue Varsity Varsity o Notre Dame Ebreu Varsity o Jerusalem Technion – Israel Institute o Technology
Doctoral advisor	Lipót Fejér
Doctoral students	Joseph Kruskal George B. Purdy Alexander Soifer Béla Bollobás

Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál [ˈɛrdøːʃ ˈpaːl]; 26 Mairch 1913 – 20 September 1996) wis a renouned Hungarian mathematician. He wis ane o the maist prolific mathematicians an producers o mathematical conjecturs o the 20t century. He wis kent baith for his social practice o mathematics (he engaged mair nor 500 collaborators) an for his eccentric lifestyle (Time magazine cried him The Oddball's Oddball). He devotit his wakin oors tae mathematics, even intae his later years—indeed, his daith cam anerly oors efter he solved a geometry problem at a conference in Warsaw.