To questions in lecture that he could not answer, he wished to reply "I think I'll leave that to the next generation" and drop dead.
To questions in lecture that he could not answer, he wished to reply "I think I'll leave that to the next generation" and drop dead. A constant named after him and Borwein is the sum of the reciprocals of the Mersenne primes, and a conjecture named for him and Strauss states that any number of the form 4 divided by n can be expressed as the sum of three unit fractions. He elegantly proved Chebyshev's theorem as a 17 year old, and with Rado and Ko his name graces a theorem involving subsets and their relation to binomial coefficients. For 10 points, name this Hungarian mathematician renowned for his many collaborations and a namesake number reminiscent of one for Kevin Bacon.
To questions in lecture that he could not answer, he wished to reply "I think I'll leave that to the next generation" and drop dead.
Paul {Erdös} [air-dish]