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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 March 1913
- Died
- 20 September 1996
- Part of
- The Martians
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Warsaw
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Erdős
- Father
- Lajos Erdős
- Field of work
- probability theory, combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, set theory, real analysis, geometry, mathematics, discrete mathematics, mathematical analysis
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Cole Prize in Number Theory, Kossuth Prize, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, honorary doctor of the University of Limoges, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Q555082, honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague, honorary doctorate of Haifa University
- academic degree
- Doctor
- academic thesis
- Über die Primzahlen gewisser arithmetischer Reihen
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- different from
- Paul Erdös
- doctoral advisor
- Lipót Fejér
- doctoral student
- Joseph Kruskal, Alexander Soifer, Béla Bollobás, George B. Purdy, Géza Fodor, Bonifac Vazahabe Donat
- educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University, Saint Stephen High School
- employer
- Institute for Advanced Study, Victoria University of Manchester, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Erdős number
- 0
- ethnic group
- Ashkenazi Jews
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Erdős Pál
- notable work
- Copeland–Erdős constant, Cameron–Erdős conjecture, De Bruijn–Erdős theorem, Davenport–Erdős theorem, Erdős–Borwein constant, Erdős–Woods number, Erdős–Straus conjecture, Erdős–Kac theorem, Erdős–Szekeres theorem, Erdős–Rényi model, Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions, Erdős–Graham problem
- place of burial
- Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery
- residence
- United Kingdom, Manchester, Warsaw, Hungary, Israel, United States
- student
- George B. Purdy, Alexander Soifer, Terence Tao
- topic's main category
- Category:Paul Erdős
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