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Paul Erdös
(26 Mar 1913 - 20 Sep 1996)
Hungarian mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Paul Erdös (3)
Another roof, another proof.
[His motto, as an itinerant between mathematical friends' houses at which he collaborated.]
[His motto, as an itinerant between mathematical friends' houses at which he collaborated.]
— Paul Erdös
Quoted by Béla Bollobás, 'The Life and Work of Paul Erdos', in Shiing-Shen Chern and Friedrich Hirzebruch, Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2000), 293.
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.
— Paul Erdös
Quoted as a favorite saying of Paul Erdös, by Béla Bollobás, 'The Life and Work of Paul Erdos', in Shiing-Shen Chern and Friedrich Hirzebruch (eds.) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2000), Vol. 1, 292.
Here I am: My brain is open.
[As an itinerant scholar, this was greeting he often gave, ready to collaborate, upon arrival at the home of any mathematician colleague.]
[As an itinerant scholar, this was greeting he often gave, ready to collaborate, upon arrival at the home of any mathematician colleague.]
— Paul Erdös
Quoted by Béla Bollobás, 'The Life and Work of Paul Erdos", in Shiing-Shen Chern and Friedrich Hirzebruch, Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2000), 293.
