http://www.metafilter.com/tags/paulerdos Posts tagged with 'paulerdos' at MetaFilter. Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:36:00 -0800 Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:36:00 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/29656/The%2DMan%2DWho%2DLoved%2DOnly%2DNumber <a href="http://www.paulerdos.com/1.html">Paul Erd&#0246;s</a> (pronounced Air-Dersh) was the most prolific mathematician of all time. He wrote almost 1500 papers with many others, leading to the creation of the <a href="http://www.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdoshp.html">Erd&#0246;s number</a>, connecting mathematicians to each other by way of their co-authored papers. Even <a href="http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/image/alex.html">a horse</a> has an Erd&#0246;s number of 3. He also had his <a href="http://www.paulerdos.com/5.html">own language</a> - if a person had "left", they had died, but if they had "died", they had stopped doing mathematics. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29656 Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:36:00 -0800 mathematics paulerdos Orange Goblin