One of the most interesting and productive mathematicians of all time was Paul Erdos (1913-1996). He was author of more than 1416 papers, and his name became associated with a labeling process for mathematicians, an idea called the Erdos Number. A mathematician who co-authored a paper with Erdos could claim Erdos Number 1. A mathematician who co-authored with a co-author of Erdos had Erdos Number 2. And so on.
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya (one of the poets at the 2019 Bridges MathArts Conference) has written a wonderful poem to celebrate Erdos; I offer below the central stanza of Bonch-Osmolovskaya's poem; the complete poem is available here.
from: Paul Erdos by Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya
he inhaled and exhaled mathematics
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Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya (one of the poets at the 2019 Bridges MathArts Conference) has written a wonderful poem to celebrate Erdos; I offer below the central stanza of Bonch-Osmolovskaya's poem; the complete poem is available here.
from: Paul Erdos by Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya
he inhaled and exhaled mathematics
Read more »
