Paul Erdős (2000) • Hacker News Board

Re: Paul Erdős (2000)

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Post by einpoklum » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 10:18 PM UTC

Erdos was a permanent visiting Professor at my alma mater, the Technion. Here's the math department's memorial page for him:

https://history.math.technion.ac.il/sites/inmemoriam/Paul-Er...

my own Ph.D. research was very much inspired by his work on discrete and probabilistic combinatorics, expanded among others by my academic "grandfather" Noga Alon, another prolific mathematician.

Re: Paul Erdős (2000)

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Post by Black101 » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 1:29 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #43

Please don't editorialize titles by cherry-picking details. That's against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . (Submitted title was "Paul Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician except for Euler")

Please don't change titles when I used the title from the original article.... also please don't change the URL of my submissions after or before they get popular.

Re: Paul Erdős (2000)

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Post by Godel_unicode » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 3:32 AM UTC

maxerickson wrote: post #55

hervature wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has the wheel gotten harder to invent since it hasn’t been invented in a million years? Your question makes no sense for the reasons pointed out by GP.

It's dumb enough that you might not take it seriously.

It's certainly dumb.

Re: Paul Erdős (2000)

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Post by dang » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 7:33 AM UTC

Black101 wrote: post #82

dang wrote: post #43

Please don't editorialize titles by cherry-picking details. That's against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . (Submitted title was "Paul Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician except for Euler")

Please don't change titles when I used the title from the original article.... also please don't change the URL of my submissions after or before they get popular.

That's standard HN moderation. If you think we made a mistake, I'd be happy to take a look at specific links.

Re: Paul Erdős (2000)

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Post by Black101 » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 11:55 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #84

Black101 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't change titles when I used the title from the original article.... also please don't change the URL of my submissions after or before they get popular.

That's standard HN moderation. If you think we made a mistake, I'd be happy to take a look at specific links.

Standard doesn't make it right... I think it is way too common.

Re: Paul Erdős (2000)

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Post by Black101 » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 3:13 PM UTC

Black101 wrote: post #85

dang wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's standard HN moderation. If you think we made a mistake, I'd be happy to take a look at specific links.

Standard doesn't make it right... I think it is way too common.

I can't wait for AI to process all this data and expose all this non-sense

Re: Paul Erdős (2000)

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Post by vo2maxer » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 10:45 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #43

Please don't editorialize titles by cherry-picking details. That's against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . (Submitted title was "Paul Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician except for Euler")

You’re right. I thought that little tidbit of a fact would place Paul Erdős among the mathematical giants where he belongs. It was my error driven by my extreme admiration for this nomadic genius.