Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál) or Paul Erdős as he pronounced it (26 March 1913 – 22 September 1996), was an eccentric Hungarian mathematician. He is best known for working on harmonics problems, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, set theory, and probability theory. The number of his research has reached nearly one thousand and six hundred, two-thirds of which he completed on his own and the remaining third jointly with his colleagues.
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He was born in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, to Jewish parents, and his genius in mathematics appeared at a very early age, as he was performing very complex addition and multiplication operations in his head without even using paper and pen when he was five years old. And just as his genius in mathematics appeared, some strange characteristics also appeared in his behavior. He was very attached to his mother and had a complete aversion to women, so that he never married or had a relationship throughout his life. Perhaps what might explain this is his sexual weakness and eccentricity.
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He moved between several Western countries to land his travels in the United States of America, and it is interesting that the American government prevented him from entering the United States because of his communist activity during his youth with some of his mathematician companions, and he was not allowed to enter except after great pressure from scholars and university presidents until he made 100 scientists and presidents University by signing a paper to ask the US authorities to allow Paul Erdoss entry into the US.
It is worth noting that he did not have a private home to live in, but lived most of his life moving with his two bags of clothes among his colleagues and students. Even one of his students, Ronald Graham – and he is the closest to his heart – built for him an annex consisting of a room, a bathroom and a kitchen in the garden of his house for Paul to come to when it was his turn to stay with him! He died on September 22, 1996 of a heart attack while attending a conference in Warsaw, Poland.