The Strangest Man in Mathematics

Описание: Paul Erdos was the strangest of them all. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.

I highly recommend the book: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman https://a.co/d/0g9MS34n

Chapters:
0:00 Strangest Mathematician in the World
0:38 A Child Obsessed With Numbers
1:15 Erdős Discovers Prime Numbers
1:49 Antisemitism in Hungary
2:07 Leaving for America
2:59 The FBI Suspects Erdős
3:17 The Wandering Mathematician
3:53 Ramsey Theory
4:10 The Probabilistic Method
4:32 Helping Young Mathematicians
5:24 His Humanity
5:58 Use of Amphetamines
6:28 The Perfect Death
7:07 AI Solves Erdős Problems
7:39 Improve Your Math Skills: Brilliant

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Sources:

The old St. John's Hospital in Budapest: FSZEK Budapest Collection

University of Budapest (Eötvös Loránd University) library interior: Thaler, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Erdős with Ronald Graham and his wife Fan Chung Graham: Che Graham, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Erdős with a young Terence Tao: either Billy or Grace Tao, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Lajos Pósa image: The Joy of Thinking Foundation https://en.agondolkodasorome.hu/

Ritalin image: en:User:Sponge, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ronald Graham portrait: Cheryl Graham, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Institute of Mathematics (Polish Academy of Sciences): Adrian Grycuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 PL via Wikimedia Commons

Grave of Erdős: Dr Varga József, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons