Paul Erdös is an inspiring figure. Not only for mathematicians and computer scientists but for everyone. His simplicity, his love for his friends, for music and of course for mathematics indicate a man who followed his feelings which had the word love in them. If you get to meet people that knew him personally and […]
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Fekete’s lemma was proved by Pólya and Szegő. A historical note, not related to Fekete’s lemma thought, which I did not know myself before reading the biography of Szegő and I find it for some reason interesting to know: At the age of 15, the young John von Neumann, recognised as a mathematical prodigy, was […]