Some Erdös Stories
- Erdös wrote many letters. Here are some samples.
- A short Erdös biography written by Erdos.
- A humorous letter from Erdös to Ron (as Mr. Chung) and Fan in 1984.
- It happens to the best of us! Erdös got a rejection letter. (Other unrelated but funny rejection letters.)
- An Erdös story by Richard Stanley. .
- The original manuscript of Erdös problems (containing the like of "marshmellow" and "acorn"), hand written by Ron Graham.
- We are all human. Erdös could make a mistake too. Here is "Some remarks and corrections to one of my papers" by Paul in 1947.
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From these letters, we can see his spirit and his kindness. Erdös brought math to mathematicians and vice versa. That is why we all love him so much! - A cartoon by XKCD: The dead walk the earth to get an Erdös number.
- "The 100th Birthday of Paul Erdös" by Bruce Torrence in Math Horizon.
- "Centenary of Mathematician Paul Erdös" by Colm Mulcahy in Huffington post.
- "Happy 100th Birthday, Paul Erdös" by Ken Regan.
- Stories about Paul Erdös and Ron Graham in an interview of Tom Brown.
- Collected papers of Paul Erdös .
- Erdös number project and the collaboration graph.
- The website of Erdös' problems on graphs
more to come.
This page is still under construction.