Mathematician (26-Mar-1913 — 20-Sep-1996)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

A. Baker; B. Bollobas; A. Hajnal (editors). A Tribute to Paul Erdos. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1990. 496pp.

Bila Bollobas; Andrew G. Thomason (editors). Combinatorics, Geometry And Probability: A Tribute To Paul Erdos. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1997. 584pp.

Fan Chung; Ron Graham. Erdos on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved Problems. Wellesley, MA: AK Peters. 1998. 142pp.

Ervin Gyori; Vera T. Sos (editors). Recent Trends in Combinatorics: The Legacy of Paul Erdos. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2001. 212pp.

Gabor Halasz; Laszlo Lovasz; Miklos Simonovits; Vera T. Sos (editors). Paul Erdos and His Mathematics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 2002. (2 vols.) 1400pp.

Paul Hoffman. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth. Boston: Hyperion. 1998. 302pp.

Bruce Schechter. My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos. Simon & Schuster. 1998.

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