Tuesday 11 February 2014

Remembering Paul Erdos

My story for The Caravan where I spoke to Indian mathematicians with an Erdos number of 1
http://caravanmagazine.in/lede/numbers

1 comment:

  1. Erdos also announced big prizes for solving difficult math problems. He didn't have the money, but probably reckoned that finding the money was easier than finding the solution to the problem.

    Erdos also walked into high schools in Hungary to spot mathematical talent. Lovasz was arguably his top student. Lovasz's many glittering contributions to combinatorics include an elegant proof of the Perfect Graph Conjecture in 1972

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