He was a fervent believer in what he called "The Book" in which he believed were contained the shortest, most beautiful proof for every conceivable mathematical problem.
He was a fervent believer in what he called "The Book" in which he believed were contained the shortest, most beautiful proof for every conceivable mathematical problem. He himself might have found some pages in it with his elegant proof of Chebyshev's theorem and through his work on Ramsey's theory with George Szekeres. Though his proof of the prime number theorem with Alte Selberg would help him win the Cole Prize, Selberg's early publication of the results screwed him out of the Fields medal. FTP, name this Israeli- Hungarian mathematician, who collaborated on over 1500 mathematics papers, thereby linking him with many great mathematicians.
He was a fervent believer in what he called "The Book" in which he believed were contained the shortest, most beautiful proof for every conceivable mathematical problem.
Paul {Erdös}