Paul Erdjans Research Paper

In the world of mathematics, there have been many who have come and gone without making any kind of mark. Paul Erdős was mostly known in “number theory” and “combinatorics” and most important “legendary eccentric who was arguably the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, in terms of both the number of problems he solved and the number of problems he convinced others to tackle” (citation). From the looks of it Erdős seems to have been a well know mathematician.
Being born of two high school math teachers, it is no surprise he became so intrigued in mathematics. Not only were his parents math teacher, he was an only child due to his two older siblings dying of scarlet fever the day he was born. This event can be said that it placed him on the path to shaping up to be who he came to be. His due to his sibling’s death and the rise in scarlet fever amongst children, his parents decided to keep him home and out of school till the age of ten. One can only imagine the boredom a child …show more content…
The Jewish community in Hungary, which included his family, was facing major hardships during the mid-1940’s. With the concentration camps and the straight up murder, compliments of our “good friend” Adolf Hitler, Paul’s family was suffering, on August 1945, Erdős received a telegram giving details of his family. His father had died of a heart attack in 1942. His mother had survived while, quite remarkably, a cousin Magda Fredro had been sent to Auschwitz but had survived.

In the end, one can say that Paul Erdős had many great life experiences, probably more than a classroom full of adults together. He contributed to, many of today’s mathematical theories and helped the growth of other great mathematicians. He did have his challenges at times, but he overcame them. On September 20th 1996 he died of a heart attack “only hours after disposing of a nettlesome problem in geometry at a conference in Warsaw”