Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Erdos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. Erdős pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Much of his work centered around discrete mathematics, cracking many previously unsolved problems in the field. He championed and contributed to Ramsey theory, which studies the conditions in which order necessarily appears. Overall, his work leaned towards solving previously open problems, rather than developing or exploring new areas of mathematics.

Hungarian - Mathematician | March 26, 1913 - September 20, 1996

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Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Paul Erdos

My brain is open.

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Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.

Paul Erdos

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

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Property is a nuisance.

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There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

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God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

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I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave.

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Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

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If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

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When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

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Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

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Here I am: My brain is open.

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God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

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You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

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The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

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Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.

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I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

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Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

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Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.

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Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

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Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).

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The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

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