A Century of Erdős

The great Hungarian combinatorialist Paul Erdős was born one hundred years ago today. The big celebration will happen in Budapest in July.



It's hard to say more about Erdős than I've already said in this blog so let's recap some of those highlights.




What is your Erdős number?
The Erdős-de Bruijn Theorem
The Erdős distance problem solved
Erdős-Szekeres monotone sequence theorem
Erdős-Rado sunflower theorem
Erdős-Turan conjecture
Erdős and the "stupid question"
Solving math problems for money
Sum-Product Theorems
Sauer's Lemma (which may or may not have been first conjectured by Erdős)


Shiva also celebrates the centenary of Erdős and I second his suggestion to check out The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman's great biography about his life.