Paul Erdős, the Mathematician Of Highest Intellectual Calibre
“A man doesn’t require things more than his basic needs.”
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” — Paul Erdős
I’ve talked about several mathematicians in my blogs from Maryam Mirzakhani to Terrence tao, from Gottfried Leibniz to Leonhard Euler. I particularly take interest in speaking about mathematicians because they perceive the world and the universe around them in ways that no one else can. Mathematical reasoning unlocks several other areas of your brain and enhances your overall thinking mechanism. This story, however, is about the mathematician who had one of the most incomprehensible personalities of all. His way of living his life and doing mathematics was unique, as mentioned by all his collaborators. I’ve written a separate story about the working ethics of the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, if you haven’t read it you can read it here,
