Knowing Paul Erdos A great Mathematician

Born 26 March 1913(1913-03-26)
Budapest, Hungary
Died 20 September 1996 (aged 83)
Warsaw, Poland
Residence Hungary
United Kingdom
United States
Israel
Then itinerant
Nationality Hungarian
Ethnicity Jewish
Fields Mathematician
Institutions Manchester
Princeton
Purdue
Notre Dame
Then itinerant
Alma mater University of Pázmány Péter
Doctoral advisor: Leopold Fejér
Doctoral students Bonifac Donat
Joseph Kruskal
Alexander Soifer
Known for Combinatorics
Graph theory
Number theory
Notable awards Wolf Prize (1983/84)
AMS Cole Prize (1951)
Religious stance Agnostic [1]
Notes
He alone has an Erdős number of zero.