# Paul Erdős

> A Hungarian mathematician who treated math as a nomadic social practice, publishing around 1,500 papers with more than 500 collaborators - so many that researchers measure their proximity to him in steps, the Erdős number.

*Hungarian mathematician (1913-1996)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/paul-erdos

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Hungary
- **Born:** 1913-03-26
- **Died:** 1996-09-20
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Budapest on 26 March 1913, Erdős spent his career cracking open problems others had left unsolved, working across discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, and probability theory. He championed Ramsey theory, which examines how order emerges from chaos, and preferred solving longstanding puzzles to carving out new fields. He taught at universities in the U.S. and Israel but never settled, living out of a suitcase with the sole purpose of writing papers with other mathematicians. His eccentric, itinerant life and relentless output - waking hours devoted to proofs, even in old age - made collaboration itself a method. He died at a mathematics conference in Warsaw on 20 September 1996, still working.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 66.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.9 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 30.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258818/ (@nm0258818)

## Topics
#Scientists, #Academic, #Mathematics, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **1996** - Died
- **1994** - Honorary Doctorate of Haifa University
- **1992** - Honorary Doctor of the Charles University of Prague
- **1989** - Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- **1986** - Honorary Doctor of the University of Limoges
- **1983** - Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- **1958** - Kossuth Prize
- **1951** - Cole Prize in Number Theory
- **1945** - Guggenheim Fellowship
- **1913** - Born

## Sources
- [Эрдёш, Пал](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%91%D1%88%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB)
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- [Pál Erdős](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Erd%C5%91s)
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