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...

mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan has an Erdős number of only 3 (through G. H. Hardy, Erdős number 2), even though Paul Erdős was only 7 years old when Ramanujan...

A person's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring academic papers between that person...

mathematician Paul Erdős and his various collaborators made many famous mathematical conjectures, over a wide field of subjects, and in many cases Erdős offered...

Erdős, Erdos, or Erdoes is a Hungarian surname. Paul Erdős (1913–1996), was a Hungarian mathematician. Ágnes Erdős (1950–2021), Hungarian politician Brad...

other model contemporaneously with and independently of Erdős and Rényi. In the model of Erdős and Rényi, all graphs on a fixed vertex set with a fixed...

after Paul Erdős: Paul Erdős Award of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions Erdős Prize Erdős Lectures Erdős number Erdős cardinal...

nonconstructive method, primarily used in combinatorics and pioneered by Paul Erdős, for proving the existence of a prescribed kind of mathematical object...

Császár, Ákos (1924–2017) Csörgő, Sándor (1947–2008) Paul Erdős Prize Dienes, Zoltán Pál (1916–2014) Erdős, Pál (1913–1996) Fejér, Lipót (1880–1959) Grossmann...

collaborators. The Erdős number measures the "collaborative distance" between an author and Erdős. Thus, his direct co-authors have Erdős number one, theirs...

prolific and itinerant mathematician Paul Erdős. This is done by means of the Erdős number, which is 0 for Paul Erdős himself, 1 for someone who co-wrote...

In graph theory, the Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture is a problem about graph coloring, named after Paul Erdős, Vance Faber, and László Lovász, who formulated...

by Paul Erdős from the age of 14. As a student, he took part in the first three International Mathematical Olympiads, winning two gold medals. Paul Erdős...

by Paul Erdős in 1977 in honor of his parents, and is awarded annually or biannually. The name was changed from "Erdős Prize" in 1996, after Erdős's death...

Pál Erdős were famous answerers in the journal KöMaL. On 1 September 1930, at a mathematical seminar at the University of Budapest, Turan met Erdős. They...

power of two. Erdős offered a prize of $100 for proving the conjecture, or $50 for a counterexample; it is one of many conjectures of Erdős. If the conjecture...

The Paul Erdős Prize (formerly Mathematical Prize) is given to Hungarian mathematicians not older than 40 by the Mathematics Department of the Hungarian...

In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, the Erdős–Pósa theorem, named after Paul Erdős and Lajos Pósa, relates two parameters of a graph: The size...

mathematician Paul Erdős (1913–1996), who became a close friend and frequent research collaborator. Graham was chagrined to be beaten in ping-pong by Erdős, then...

"The Man Who Loved Only Numbers / The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth", Paul Erdős attended the bar mitzvah celebration for Peter...

Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdős, directed by George Paul Csicsery. The film...

The Erdős–Turán conjecture is an old unsolved problem in additive number theory (not to be confused with Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions) posed...

the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem limits the number of sets in a family of sets for which every two sets have at least one element in common. Paul Erdős, Chao...

The Paul Erdős Award, named after Paul Erdős, is given by the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions for those who "have played a significant...

ordinal α, there is an α-Erdős cardinal". In fact, for every indiscernible κ, Lκ satisfies "for every ordinal α, there is an α-Erdős cardinal in Coll(ω, α)"...

Paul Erdős, who often referred to "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem. During a lecture in 1985, Erdős said...

in the OEIS). The Erdős–Woods numbers can be characterized in terms of certain partitions of the prime numbers. A number k is an Erdős–Woods number if and...

their use in ancient Egyptian mathematics. The Erdős–Straus conjecture is one of many conjectures by Erdős, and one of many unsolved problems in mathematics...

the exact dimension of any function space. The theorem is named after Paul Erdős and Irving Kaplansky. Let E {\displaystyle E} be an infinite-dimensional...

Erdős' conjecture on arithmetic progressions, often referred to as the Erdős–Turán conjecture, is a conjecture in arithmetic combinatorics (not to be confused...